Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Michael Jackson recently played it and O.J. Simpson played it successfully, but what is the "race card"- and further more, what are the assumptions about the black community when it is played? A conversation about the perception of connectivity within the black community, and who gets to play the "race card" and why.
Guests
- Katheryn Russell-Brown Professor of law, Director of The Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations, University of Florida Law School, author of “Underground Codes: Race, Crime, and Related Fires” and to be published this Fall, "Protecting Our Own: Race, Crime and African Americans." (Rowman and Littlefield press)
- Sharon Harley Chair and Associate Professor, African American Studies Department, University of Maryland
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