PENIEL JOSEPH ON HOW TO FIX DEMOCRACY

In our second series of How to Fix Democracy, we’ve been focusing on this relationship between capitalism and democracy. And our interviews to date have been, so to speak, a little color-blind. We haven’t focused on civil rights or ethnicity in terms of this relationship. So, I thought today would be a good opportunity to talk to one of America’s leading authorities on civil rights and black power, my old friend Peniel Joseph, who teaches at the University of Texas in Austin, and is the author of a number of highly reviewed books about figures in African American history, Black Power Movement thinkers like Stokely…