Race in America Panel: Winter 2016 (hosted by April Ryan)

Join April Ryan, Washington Bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks and author of The Presidency in Black and White, for the second in an ongoing discussion of race in relation to recent and longstanding issues, including politics, faith, and American culture. Ryan will moderate a panel of distinguished figures including Eddie S. Glaude Jr., professor of religion and chair of Princeton’s Center for African-American Studies, author of Democracy in Black and the Oxford Very Short Introduction to African American Religion; Wes Moore, an Army veteran, former Rhodes Scholar, author of The Other Wes Moore, The Work, several books for young adults, and the founder of STAND!, an organization that works with Baltimore youth involved in the criminal justice system; and L. Douglas Wilder, Virginia’s first elected African American governor (1989-1994) who, since leaving public office, has served as an adjunct professor of public policy at Virginia Commonwealth University, and published Son of Virginia, his autobiography.

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