![]() ![]() ![]() Covering a wide range of topics, from pop culture and history to politics and sports, the series shows us how we can have conversations about race and racism with levity-that we can stumble and still move forward. Today a Harvard professor (Khalil) and an award-winning journalist (Ben), the two invite listeners into their unfiltered conversations about growing up in a deeply divided country. Khalil is also the co-host, alongside his long-time friend Ben Austen, of the podcast Some of My Best Friends Are-produced by Malcolm Gladwell’s Pushkin Industries. The Condemnation of Blackness won the John Hope Franklin Best Book Award in American Studies. ![]() In it, Khalil expertly shows how the idea of Black criminality was crucial to the making of modern America-the promised land of opportunity- and the influence it has had on urban development and social policies to this day. Khalil Gibran Muhammad is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, a spectacular exploration of how the urban North shaped views of race and crime in American society. ![]()
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