NBF Presents: A New Black Politics?

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Join National Book Award–honored authors Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ibram X. Kendi, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for a conversation on Black politics.

National Book Award Winners <a href="https://ta-nehisicoates.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ta-Nehisi Coates</a> (Between the World and Me) and <a href="https://www.ibramxkendi.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ibram X. Kendi</a> (Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America) and Longlister <a href="http://www.keeangataylor.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor</a> (Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership) kick off the virtual mainstage season of NBF Presents for a conversation on the state of Black politics—offering historical context to the global uprising, Black Lives Matter, and response of Black politicians and organizers. Less than a month until the 2020 presidential election, these authors and thinkers consider where this moment leaves Black voters. Moderated by Franklin Leonard, founder of the <a href="https://blcklst.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Black List</a>.This program is presented by the <a href="https://www.nationalbook.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">National Book Foundation</a>. The livestreamed event will feature a moderated conversation and question-and-answer session. Books are available for sale <a href="https://www.loyaltybookstores.com/nbf-presents-new-black-politics" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>, with thanks to <a href="https://www.loyaltybookstores.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Loyalty Bookstores</a>. NBF Presents is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Ta-Nehisi Coates is a distinguished writer in residence at New York University&#x27;s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He is the author of the bestselling books The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015. Ta-Nehisi is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. He is also the current author of the Marvel comic Captain America.Ibram X. Kendi is a #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. Kendi is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent. He is the 2020-2021 Frances B. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for the Advanced Study at Harvard University.Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is assistant professor of African American studies at Princeton University and the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, and Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, which was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction.Moderator Franklin Leonard is a film and television producer, cultural commentator, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of the Black List, the company that celebrates and supports great screenwriting and the writers who do it via production; an annual survey of best unproduced screenplays; an online marketplace; and writer labs. More than 400 scripts from the annual Black List survey have been produced as feature films—earning more than 250 Academy Award nominations and 50 wins, including four of the last thirteen Best Pictures and eleven of the last twenty-four screenwriting Oscars. Franklin has been one of Black Enterprise’s &quot;40 Emerging Leaders for Our Future,&quot; Fast Company&#x27;s &quot;100 Most Creative People in Business,&quot; and was the recipient of the 2019 Writers Guild of America, East Evelyn F. Burkey Award. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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