LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF OUR FATHERS
February 4 @ 5:00 pm
Omo Moses‘s book, The White Peril, is a coming-of-age story, a multigenerational family memoir, an epic father-son road trip, a searing account of the Black male experience, and a work that powerfully revives Reverend Moses’s demand for liberation. Moses deftly interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather’s sermons and the writings of his father, the civil rights activist Robert P. Moses. (Link to archived interview https://cambridgeforum.org/mississippi-then-and-now/). Omo’s memoir is a compelling chorus of voices that spans three generations of an African-American family, shining a light on the Black experience, and demanding racial justice.
Omo will be joined in conversation by Jack Tchen, the Clement A. Price Professor of Public History & Humanities, and Director of the Price Institute on Ethnicity, Cultures, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University.
Paris Alston, the host of GBH News and incoming host of the new Basic Black will moderate the discussion. Alston has extensive media experience reporting stories from around the world. A North Carolina native, she is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, where she studied media, journalism and global studies. Alston recently earned a Social Impact MBA from Boston University and is a member of the Boston and National Associations of Black Journalists.