That was moved in with heads of grace and love Public Policy at college and nieman fellow at Harvard University his awardwinning work has been published in the new york times, the Washington Post among many other periodicals and he has appeared in tonight he is here with his new book why didnt we write a . Addressing such topics and is confederate iconography and Police Brutality. This collection explores what it means to be black and trump america. It is called a powerful weapon in history and truth that is present and surprisingly vulnerable. To main conversation from the library. And the screen is all yours. Thank you so much for here in the area and then to underscore about the q a. And then we will get to as many of them as we can. So you start off the book we do a deep dive early on he make a prediction about the president ial election. Donald trump would receive 60 percent of the way vote even more than the last time and the exit polls are correct and you are spot on looking at
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