Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets, Brookland, presents a panel of extraordinary speakers to include April Ryan, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Wes Moore, and former Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder as they discuss race relations in present-day American politics and culture.
Join April Ryan, Washington Bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks and author of "The Presidency in Black and White", for the second in a discussion of race in relation to recent and ongoing issues involving politics, faith, and American culture, past and present. Ryan will moderate a panel of distinguished figures including Eddie S. Glaude Jr, professor of religion and chair of Princeton’s Center for African-American Studies, author of "Democracy in Black" and the Oxford Very Short Introduction to "African American Religion"; Wes Moore, an Army veteran, former Rhodes Scholar, author of "The Other Wes Moore", "The Work", several books for young adults, and the founder of STAND!, an organization that works with BalÂtiÂmore youth involved in the crimÂiÂnal jusÂtice system; and L. Douglas Wilder, Virginia’s second African American governor (1989-1994), and the first since Reconstruction, who, since leaving public office has served as an adjunct professor of public policy at Virginia Commonwealth University, and published "Son of Virginia", his autobiography.
