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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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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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