S1 EP3 - BLACK STUDIES W/WESLEY LOWERY: Whitelash, reporting protests, getting arrested, Trump, Obama and justice
Kehinde Andrews talks with Wesley Lowrey at a live event earlier this year about his arrest while covering protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and about his new book American Whitelash. A book about the rise in racial violence in the decade following the election of the US' first Black president.
Wesley Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, reporter, editor, and best-selling author known for his written audio, and on-camera work. He has served as a national correspondent for the Washington Post and an on-air correspondent for CBS News and 60 Minutes. His first book “They Can’t Kill Us All” published right after Trump’s election, chronicles his experience covering the protest movement that emerged following the death of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Michael Brown.
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American Whitelash The Resurgence of Racial Violence in Our Time: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/443220/american-whitelash-by-lowery-wesley/9780241517123
Wesley Lowery's Arrest:
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/wesley-lowerys-arrest
African and Caribbean People in Britain by Hakim Adi review – long before the Windrush docked: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/28/african-and-caribbean-people-in-britain-by-hakim-adi-review-long-before-the-windrush-docked
We Are Black and British
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014t9r
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Guest: @wesleylowery
Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) / @kehinde_andrews (T)
Podcast: @makeitplainorg
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Psychosis of Whiteness Book Tour Dates
7 (Thurs) with @nelsabbey in London
11 (Mon) @toppingsbath
12 (Tues) online @guardianlive
13 (Wed) with @afuahirsch @lrbbookshop
17 (Sun) with @bbbookfestival @Manchester City LibraryTicket: https://linktr.ee/KehindeAndrews
Make It Plain Podcast
Every Week We’re Making Plain What’s Happening in the Black World and Interviewing Guests You Need to Hear.
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We launched S2 of the Make It Plain (MIP) Podcast to coincide with the historic founding of the Organisation of Afro-America Unity (OAAU). Malcolm X announced the establishment of the OAAU at a public meeting in New York's Audubon Ballroom sixty years ago, on June 28, 1964.
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Make It Plain (MIP) is an independent media platform, the editorial wing of Harambee OBU (HOBU), and a go-to-hub for Black radical politics.
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The host, Kehinde Andrews, teaches as a professor at Birmingham City University (BCU) where he co-led with Dr. Dionne Taylor the set-up of the first and only award-winning Black Studies BA + MA program in Europe, the chair of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (HOBU), and editor-in-chief of Make It Plain. He is the author of "Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century" (2018), its prequel "The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World" (2021) and his latest "The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World" out in Sept 2023.
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W: www.make-it-plain.org, www.blackunity.org.uk
IG: @makeitplainorg @kehindeandrews @harambeeobu
X: @makeitplainorg @kehinde_andrews @HarambeeOBU
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Written and hosted: Kehinde Andrews
Executive production: Weyland McKenzie-Witter
Coordination, socials + publishing: Oliver Luke Taylor
Socials input: Djeneba Deby Bagayoko
YouTube: Kadiri (Kehinde's son)
Theme music is "Patience" by Weyland McKenzie and AyChibs
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