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"Sellers expands on the issues he addressed in his New York Times bestseller My Vanishing Country, [which examined] national politics and policies that deeply impact not only Black people in his home state of South Carolina but the lives of millions of African Americans in communities across the nation. Four years later, Sellers has an answer to [a] question he raised on CNN, offering much-needed prescriptions to help all Black American lives. [He] explores inequities in healthcare, education, early childhood education, and policing, drawing on interviews with numerous thought leaders such as…mehr

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"Sellers expands on the issues he addressed in his New York Times bestseller My Vanishing Country, [which examined] national politics and policies that deeply impact not only Black people in his home state of South Carolina but the lives of millions of African Americans in communities across the nation. Four years later, Sellers has an answer to [a] question he raised on CNN, offering much-needed prescriptions to help all Black American lives. [He] explores inequities in healthcare, education, early childhood education, and policing, drawing on interviews with numerous thought leaders such as pioneering voting rights and poverty activist the Rev. William Barber, and Ben Crump, the civil rights legend who successfully uses the law to achieve justice for people of color in racially charged cases. He also shares his thoughts on conservative media and the forces and dark money behind firebrands such as Tucker Carlson"--
Autorenporträt
Bakari Sellers made history in 2006 when, at just twenty-two years old, he defeated a twenty-six-year incumbent State Representative to become the youngest member of the South Carolina state legislature and the youngest African American elected official in the nation. In 2014 he was the Democratic Nominee for Lieutenant Governor in the state of South Carolina. Sellers is a CNN political analyst and served in the South Carolina state legislature. Recently named to 's Under 40” list, he is also a practicing attorney who fights to give a voice to the voiceless.