Carol Anderson & Kevin Young in conversation with Paul Wells | Maclean's Live

On June 10, Maclean’s senior writer Paul Wells welcomed a distinguished panel of African-American writers to discuss issues of racism and diversity in the U.S. after the death of George Floyd, including: • Carol Anderson, the Charles Howard Candler Professor and chair of African American Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. Anderson’s 2016 book White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide was a New York Times bestseller and the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Her most recent book is One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy. • Kevin Young, the poetry editor of The New Yorker and the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture at the New York Public Library. He is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose. Watch the full replay. READ -------------- The Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List mentioned in the conversation: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/06/09/... Maclean's asked 8 Black Canadian writers to pen letters speaking to anti-Black racism in the U.S and Canada. You can read the collection here: https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/lette... Click here to subscribe to Maclean's on YouTube: http://bit.ly/macleanssubscribe Check out our full video catalogue: http://bit.ly/macleansvideos Videos, stories, interactive, charts, and more: http://www.macleans.ca Sign up for our Archives, a digitized collection of more than a century of magazines: http:///www.macleans.ca/archives Download Maclean's Daily App for mobile and tablet: http://bit.ly/macleansapp Like Maclean's on Facebook: http://fb.com/macleans Follow Maclean's on Twitter:   / macleans   Follow Maclean's on Flipboard: https://flipboard.com/@MacleansMag Follow us on Instagram:   / macleansmag   Check out our Pinterest:   / macleansmag