About the Program
Peniel Joseph recalls the black power movement in his book, Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama. Mr. Joseph contends that the 1965 Voting Rights Act played a significant role in the ascendancy of black radical politics and assisted in paving the way for future African-American political leadership. Peniel Joseph profiles several of the movement's key figures, including Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X, and Paul Robeson. He discusses his book with Kevin Merida, national editor of The Washington Post.
Peniel Joseph
Peniel Joseph is a history professor at Tufts University. He is the author of Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America and the editor of The Black Power Movement and Neighborhood Rebels. For more information, visit his website at penielejoseph.com.
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Kevin Merida
Kevin Merida is national editor of The Washington Post where he has covered politics and culture for over fifteen years. Mr. Merida is the co-author with Michael Fletcher of Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas and the editor of Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and Peril that originated as a series in The Washington Post.