Janet Dewart Bell and Lewis Steel -- White Privilege and Race in America

Originally broadcast - December 06, 2020

“The ultimate thing about White Privilege is you don’t have to think about it”

This is East End Ink.

Tonight we present  social justice advocate and author Janet Dewart Bell and NAACP civil rights attorney Lewis Steel in a talk about race in American society.

This program is one of the on-line series produced by Canios Cultural Café

Janet Dewart Bell is the widow of NAACP attorney Derick Bell. 

Janet Bell and Lewis Steel were introduced by Canio’s Kathryn Szoka.

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The complete discussion is available at Canio’s Books YouTube channel.

Janet  Bell’s book, Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement was published by New Press in 2018.

Lewis Steel’s book, The Butler's Child: White Privilege, Race, and a Lawyer's Life in Civil Rights was published by the University of South Carolina Press  

Scott Chaskey - Poet, educator and farmer

 

Poet, educator and farmer Scott Chaskey read from his work this month presented by the Southampton History Museum.

Chaskey is a pioneer in the Community Supported Agriculture movement.

He is past president of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York and the author of books on agriculture as well as poetry. 

 

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Scott Chaskey's books include

 “Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, Politics & Promise of Seeds” from Rodale Press in 2014

and

“This Common Ground: Seasons On An Organic Farm” from Penguin in 2006.

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Thanks to Connor Flanagan of the Southampton History Museum