He says love can’t conquer injustice, but strategy has a fighting chance.
Listen Live: Jabari Asim celebrates the strength of black history & culture on Your Call on KALW Public Radio with ROSE AGUILAR & LAURA WENUS • NOV 14, 2018
On this edition of Your Call, Jabari Asim discusses his new book We Can’t Breathe, which calls out racist “white lies” and replaces it with a story of black survival.
The collection of essays offers a portrait of a community that is resisting, surviving and flourishing despite centuries of racism, violence and trauma. He says love can’t conquer injustice, but strategy has a fighting chance.
Guest:
Jabari Asim, associate professor of writing at Emerson College in Boston, former editor for the Washington Post, and the author of We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival
