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President Barack Obama joined us for a conversation with filmmaker Ava DuVernay about his bestselling memoir “A Promised Land.” But if you weren’t able to attend the streaming event Wednesday, never fear: Watch this special book club event here.
Obama talked about leadership, failure, activism and police reform, which he says begins with reimagining the role of law enforcement.
“What does it mean for a community to be safe?” Obama asked during the book club conversation. “For most of our history, policing in the African American community has meant just keeping a lid on things and keeping control and maintaining barriers and boundaries, rather than actually serving those communities.”
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Former President Obama joins the L.A. Times Community Book Club tonight to discuss his memoir “A Promised Land” with filmmaker Ava DuVernay.
The free virtual event will stream at 7 p.m. PDT on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Sign up on Eventbrite.
Every month, The Times invites all of Los Angeles to read the same book, then hosts a discussion with the author. “A Promised Land” is the book club’s April selection.
Obama joins book club readers for a conversation about his bestselling memoir with DuVernay, an award-winning writer, producer and director who grew up in Long Beach.
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The Los Angeles Times Community Book Club is reading “The Promised Land,” the bestselling memoir by former President Barack Obama. This excerpt comes from chapter one, when Obama moves to Los Angeles from Hawaii to attend Occidental College and begins his journey to find a place in the world.
My interest in books probably explains why I not only survived high school but arrived at Occidental College in 1979 with a thin but passable knowledge of political issues and a series of half-baked opinions that I’d toss out during late-night bull sessions in the dorm.
Looking back, it’s embarrassing to recognize the degree to which my intellectual curiosity those first two years of college paralleled the interests of various women I was attempting to get to know: Marx and Marcuse so I had something to say to the long-legged socialist who lived in my dorm; Fanon and Gwendolyn Brooks for the smooth-skinned sociology major who never gave me a second look; Foucault and Woolf for
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