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Dispatches From the Diaspora - Gary Younge and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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OR Books at the Francis Kite Club

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Featured Speakers/Commentators:

Gary Younge, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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Essential Dissent Contact Contributor

Date Published:

March 29, 2025, midnight

Summary: This episode features Gary Younge and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in a conversation centered on Younge’s new book, “Dispatches From the Diaspora.”

Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in Britain.

Formerly a columnist and an editor-at-large at the Guardian, he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine.

Gary Younge is the author of five books, including Another Day in the Death of America, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Prize.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States.

She is currently a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.

Gary Younge and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor spoke on February 25, 2025 at the Francis Kite Club, which is also the home of OR Books, in New York City.

https://orbooks.com
https://www.franciskiteclub.com

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