Black Leaders on Leadership

Event Details

Television Broadcast: March 29, 2015
Part of a new American Forum special series in Spring 2015

What Now? Dialogues on Race in America

Drawing on a wealth of oral interviews collected by activist and politician JULIAN BOND and historian PHYLLIS LEFFLER, the new book Black Leaders on Leadership uses the lives of prominent African Americans from all sectors of society to trace the contours of black leadership in America. The interviews include accounts from a wide variety of figures such as John Lewis, Clarence Thomas, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Vernon Jordan, Angela Davis, Amiri Baraka, and many more. These individual and collective memories form a genealogy of social and cultural identity, demonstrating how leadership emerges from historical struggle rooted in the promise of a brighter future and providing valuable insights into the intractable disparities of race in America.