Learning to be a Black Man in America
The Leonard Lopate Show | Nov 21, 2016
Mychal Denzel Smith, a Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute and a contributing writer for The Nation, discusses discuss his book, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education. Smith chronicles his own personal and political education over the past eight years, coming of age during Barack Obama's presidency while at the same time, witnessing the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Akai Gurle, among others.
