Event Lectures and Symposia Redacting and Retelling: New Ways of Confronting Systemic Racism with Shane McCrae and Nicole Sealey
Date and Location
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When: Saturday, August 12, 2023
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
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Where: Walter E. Washington Convention Center - West Salon GHI (Street Level, South Building)
801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC 20001
Part of National Book Festival ; 2023 National Book Festival
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Poetry and poets confront racism in this panel. In his memoir “Pulling the Chariot of the Sun” poet Shane McCrae pieces together the story of his childhood kidnapping by his white grandparents—and the fragments of his biracial identity. Nicole Sealey’s poetry collection “The Ferguson Report” reimagines the eponymous report on racially-biased policing in Missouri. Moderated by Anya Creightney.