Race in America Panel with April Ryan, Joy Ann Reid, Mary Francis Berry, Wes Moore, Cornell Belcher, and Avis Jones DeWeever

Race in America Panel with April Ryan, Joy Ann Reid, Mary Francis Berry, Wes Moore, Cornell Belcher, and Avis Jones DeWeever

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Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets 14th & V presents "Race In America" Panel with April Ryan, Joy-Ann Reid, Mary Frances Berry, Wes Moore, Cornell Belcher, and Avis Jones DeWeever.

Join April Ryan, Washington Bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks and author of The Presidency in Black and White, for the fourth in an ongoing series of discussions focusing on race in America. As she has in previous presentations, Ryan will moderate a panel of leading writers and commentators to examine recent and longstanding issues. Speakers include Joy-Ann Reid, national correspondent for MSNBC, former host of “The Reid Report,” and author of Fracture: Barack Obama, The Clintons, and the Racial Divide; Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, and author most recently of Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich; and Wes Moore, Army veteran, social entrepreneur and author of The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates and The Work: Searching for a Life That Matters; award-winning pollster Cornell Belcher, President of Brilliant Corners Research & Strategies, author of A Black Man in the White House; Avis Jones DeWeever, Founder of the Exceptional Leadership Institute for Women and author of How Exceptional Black Women Lead.

Busboys and Poets 14th & V 2021 14th St NW Washington DC 20009

The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America Cover Image Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide Cover Image Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich: Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy Cover Image The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates Cover Image The Work: Searching for a Life That Matters Cover Image A Black Man in the White House Cover Image

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