Isabel Wilkerson
In conversation with Gregory Rodriguez,
LA Times columnist
A Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter chronicles a watershed event in American history-- the decades-long migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West--through the stories of three individuals and their families.
Isabel Wilkerson, formerly James M. Cox Professor of Journalism at Emory University, is Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University. In 1994, while Chicago bureau chief of The New York Times, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. Wilkerson has also won a George S. Polk Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Journalist of the Year award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
Gregory Rodriguez is Founder and Executive Director of Zócalo Public Square. He has written widely on issues of social cohesion, civic engagement, national identity, assimilation, race relations, religion, immigration, ethnicity, demographics and social and political trends in such leading publications as The New York Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times, where he is an op-ed columnist. Rodriguez, a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, is also the author of Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America. He is at work on a new book on the American Cult of Hope.
The Library Foundation of Los Angeles would like to acknowledge the California African American Museum for their suport in promoting this program
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