Can We Talk about Race?

An award-winning journalist says yes—it isn’t easy, but everyone can learn to do it

Celeste Headlee, an award-winning journalist, professional speaker and author of We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter (Harper Wave, 2018), and Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving (Harmony, 2021) met (virtually) with Public Seminar editorial intern Gregory Coleman to discuss writing about the difficult conversations that need to happen ...
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Can We Talk about Race?

Speaking of Race

In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, Celeste Headlee shows how two determined friends opened a white supremacist’s mind

First is the story of Derek Black, godson of David Duke (former grand wizard of the KKK) and son of Don Black, who founded the neo-Nazi online forum Stormfront in 1996. Derek was raised in a tradition of hate and became a true believer in the white nationalist cause. Then ...
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Speaking of Race