Name: Sarah J. Jackson with Soraya Nadia McDonald
Start: 2026-07-14T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-07-14T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene

Sarah J. Jackson with Soraya Nadia McDonald

Founded in October 2009, Greenlight Bookstore is a general independent bookstore in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, which hosts literary events in-store and with partner venues. The mission of Greenlight Bookstore is to create welcoming spaces for discovery, conversation, and connection around books, through curation, programming and service that provides for the needs and interests of our customers and highlights creative work we love and value, based on a commitment to improving equity and sustainability in our company and our community. Through knowledgeable staff, curated book selection, community partnerships, and a robust e-commerce website as well as a beautiful bookstore spaces, Greenlight combines the best traditions of the neighborhood bookstore with a forward-looking sensibility. Greenlight has garnered local, national, and international press coverage for its innovative startup model and its continuing success. More information and details, along with book purchase options, can be found atgreenlightbookstore.com.

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Renowned media scholar Sarah J. Jackson presents a vital appraisal that situates Black mediamakers at the vanguard of American storytelling.

Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene

Sarah J. Jackson presents A Second Sight: How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom In conversation with Soraya Nadia McDonald Renowned media scholar Sarah J. Jackson presents A Second Sight, a brilliant, urgent and illuminating appraisal that situates Black mediamakers at the vanguard of telling the American story. Since the nation’s founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience—what W.E.B. Du Bois called a “second sight”—that reveals the truth about the nation to itself. As Jackson charts in this bold and daring masterwork, at the center are an extraordinary cast of Black journalists, photographers, filmmakers, radio hosts, podcasters and other mediamakers who have drawn on the visionary tradition of second sight to advance democracy and broaden our most fundamental American values. A candid grappling with a discordant thread in the American fabric, in tracing a bolder vision for the nation, Jackson presents a way forward. Cultural critic Soraya Nadia McDonald joins Jackson for a reading and discussion before an audience Q&amp;A and signing.

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