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Join us in solidarity with Garrett Felber for a discussion about defending anti-racist and abolitionist organizing in academia.

Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes acclaimed poet Dr. Joshua Bennett—the Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and author of The Sobbing School: Poems—for a discussion of his latest books, Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man and the poetry collection Owed. He will be joined in conversation by writer and scholar Dr. Imani Perry, author of the award–winning biography, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry.

Join Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Hilton Als, and Imani Perry for a virtual discussion of James Baldwin’s No Name in the Street. Moderated by Julian Lucas.

The above segment is from The Matter of Fact Listening Tour hosted by Soledad O’Brien.

“The Hard Truth About Bias” features conversations about the relationship of race and privilege; racial stress; the impact of bias in the images and language in our daily news and information; and the creation of stereotypes and how they influence the way we think.