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Kai WrightAlfred Knobler FellowKai Wright is a writer and editor in Brooklyn, NY, whose work explores the politics of sex, race, and health. He is the Editorial Director at the Applied Research Center and ColorLines. His investigative reporting and news analysis appears regularly in The Nation, The Root and The American Prospect, among other publications. He is the author of Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York. Wright is the author of two books of African-American history: Soldiers of Freedom: An Illustrated History of African Americans in the Armed Forces, which explores America's struggle with race as it has been dramatized by the need to staff a viable military, and The African-American Archive: The History of the Black Experience Through Documents. Wright holds a Bachelor of Arts in international studies from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Public Policy and International Affairs and studied Arabic at the Middlebury College Language Institute in Vermont. He is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana. For more information, check out his website, www.kaiwright.com and his author page at The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund website
Selected Articles: Counting on the Census Glenn Beck's worst nightmare: An America without minorities On the books More Mortgage Madness The Subprime Swindle |
The Great American StickupHow Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street
"One of the best reporters of our time."—Joan Didion In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal. Check out Scheer's book tour! MoreMarfa Dialogues/Diálogos en Marfa: Politics and Culture of the Borderundef 0 | Marfa, Texas See acclaimed Nation Books authors Charles Bowden and Mark Danner speak at Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of the Border, three days of art, film, music, and literature. Presented by Ballroom Marfa and The Washington Spectator, in collaboration with The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio and Marfa Book Company.
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September 18
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October 5
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October 23 - January 16
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