Political Party with Keli Goff: The Obama Years in Black and White
Political Party with Keli Goff
Keli Goff hosts Political Party with guests Jonathan Alter, Don Lemon, Daryl Davis and Ron Christie.
Video after video showing black men, women, and sometimes children being assaulted, shot, and killed by police goes viral. Poverty, failing schools, unemployment, and incarceration continue to disproportionately affect black communities. Black Lives Matter becomes a movement and is quickly met with the dismissive counter that Blue Lives Matter, All Lives Matter.
Is this progress?
As President Barack Obama’s time in the White House draws to a close, host Keli Goff examines how his historic presidency has made an impact on national conversations about race, justice, and inequality from policy matters to pop culture. She also discusses how Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump are poised to impact race relations in the future with reporter Jonathan Alter, CNN’s Don Lemon, GOP political strategist Ron Christie and musician and author Daryl Davis.
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PANELISTS
Jonathan Alter, reporter and author of “The Promise: President Obama, Year One” (2010) and “The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies” (2013)
Don Lemon, CNN correspondent and anchor of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon
Daryl Davis, blues musician and author of “Klan-destine Relationships: A Black Man’s Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan.” The book chronicles his experience working to improve race relations by seeking out and befriending members of the Ku Klux Klan, several of whom he convinced to leave the organization.
Ron Christie, former special assistant to President George W. Bush and deputy assistant to Vice President Dick Cheney. He is also author of three books on race and politics in America.
About the Series
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About Keli
An internationally recognized multi-platform journalist and fiction writer, Keli Goff’s work has appeared in many publications including Time, Cosmopolitan, Essence, The Washington Post and the web editions of The New York Times and The Atlantic, among others. She is author of two books, including Party Crashing: How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence (Basic Books, March 2008).
She is currently a columnist for The Daily Beast, and is also an award-winning writer for theater and television. For her work on the third season of the hit television series “Being Mary Jane,” she was awarded a 2016 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series. In December 2015 she completed a two-year playwriting fellowship with The Public Theater, the legendary artistic institution best known for producing Shakespeare in the Park.
Keli has appeared on more than 100 national and international news programs on the networks, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, BET and the BBC, providing political analysis and cultural criticism. Learn more at www.keligoff.com and follow her on Twitter @keligoff
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