Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, August 12, 2020.
George W. “Mac” McCarthy continues the African American Heritage House Lecture Series in Week Seven.
McCarthy is president and CEO of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Before joining the Lincoln Institute in 2014, Mac directed Metropolitan Opportunity at the Ford Foundation which sought to provide disadvantaged people better access to good jobs and other opportunities for advancement by supporting regional planning.
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Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Thursday, August 13, 2020.
Angela Saini discusses her book “Superior: The Return of Race Science.”
Saini is an award-winning science journalist, author and broadcaster. Her latest book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, tells the disturbing story of t...
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, August 13, 2020.
Dr. Ingrid Mattson looks at Islamic interfaith relations and studies.
Mattson is a Muslim religious leader, a scholar of Islamic Studies, and an expert in interfaith relations. Since 2012 she has held the London and Windsor Communi...
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, August 13, 2020.
Maurice Carlos Ruffin on his book We Cast a Shadow, a keen satire of surviving racism in America.
A profoundly moving family story, the center of the book is a father who just wants his son to thrive in a broken world. Ruffin wa...