Deepa Iyer, senior fellow at the Center for Social Inclusion, and Amardeep Singh, program officer in Open Society Foundation’s National Security and Human Rights Campaign called in to the Marc Steiner Show Tuesday to preview tomorrow’s Talking About Race event, Confronting the New Islamophobia.
Listen to the entire podcast here, and join us for the event, where Deepa and Amar will be joined by Kameelah Rashad, the Muslim Chaplin at the University of Pennsylvania and Tariq Toure, a Baltimore-based activist, essayist, poet, and author of “Black Seeds: The Poetry and Reflections of Tariq Toure.” More information can be found here and the Facebook invite is here.
Guest-hosting the show was Lester Spence, the Johns Hopkins University political science professor who was featured in our last Talking About Race event, “Black Politics and Neoliberalism.”