Two Freedoms: Speech and Guns - Carol Anderson and Ellis Cose | Schomburg Center Literary Festival

The Schomburg Center Literary Festival expands the center's long tradition of championing authors of African descent from across the globe and publications that celebrate Black history and culture. Day 2: Two Freedoms Carol Anderson, author of The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, and Ellis Cose, author of The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America, take us through our fraught history with the first and second amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Moderator: C. Nicole Mason, PhD FEATURED BOOKS GET THE BOOK - The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America: https://schomburgshop.com/collections... Free speech has long been one of American's most revered freedoms. Yet now, more than ever, free speech is reshaping America’s social and political landscape even as it is coming under attack. Bestselling author and critically acclaimed journalist Ellis Cose wades into the debate to reveal how this Constitutional right has been coopted by the wealthy and politically corrupt. Cose offers an eye-opening wholly original examination of the state of free speech in America today, litigating ideas that touch on every American’s life. GET THE BOOK The Second- Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America: https://schomburgshop.com/collections... In The Second, historian and award-winning, bestselling author of White Rage Carol Anderson powerfully illuminates the history and impact of the Second Amendment, how it was designed, and how it has consistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable. The Second is neither a “pro-gun” nor an “anti-gun” book; the lens is the citizenship rights and human rights of African Americans. ABOUT THE PARTICIPANT (S) CAROL ANDERSON is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of One Person, No Vote, longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award; White Rage, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; Bourgeois Radicals; and Eyes off the Prize. She was named a Guggenheim Fellow for Constitutional Studies. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. ELLIS COSE is the author of a dozen books on issues of national and international concern, including the best-selling The Rage of a Privileged Class. Cose is a widely respected journalist who has served as columnist and contributing editor of Newsweek, editor page chief for the New York Daily News, a fellow at the National Research Council/National Academy of Science, a fellow of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a fellow of the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University, a fellow of the Center for Free Speech and Public Engagement of the University of California, and a contributor and columnist for numerous major publications, including USA Today and TIME. Cose has appeared on the Today Show, Nightline, Dateline, ABC Evening News, Good Morning America, PBS “Time to Choose” election special, Charlie Rose, CNN’s Talk Back Live, and a variety of other nationally televised and local programs. He lives in New York City DR. C. NICOLE MASON is the president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). Having stepped into the role in November 2019, Dr. Mason is the youngest person currently leading one of the major inside-the-Beltway think tanks in Washington, D.C., and one of the few women of color to do so. As one of the nation’s foremost intersectional researchers and scholars, Dr. C. Nicole Mason brings a fresh perspective and a wealth of experience to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. For the past two decades, Dr. Mason has spearheaded research on issues relating to economic security, poverty, women’s issues, and entitlement reforms; policy formation and political participation among women, communities of color; and racial equity. Her writing and commentary have been featured in the New York Times, MSNBC, CNN, NBC, CBS, the Washington Post, Marie Claire, the Progressive, ESSENCE, Bustle, BIG THINK, Miami Herald, Democracy Now, and numerous NPR affiliates, among others. The Schomburg Center Literary Festival is generously sponsored by: Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation New York Life Foundation SCHOMBURG SHOP Readers everywhere who wish to order copies of books featured during the festival and more, can do so online at The Schomburg Shop: https://schomburgshop.com/products/ma... All proceeds benefit The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.