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Julian Bond has been at the cutting edge of social change since he was a college student leading sit-in demonstrations in Atlanta in 1960. The civil rights leader faced jail for his activism and helped create the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. After 20 years as a Georgia lawmaker, Julian Bond is now a writer and the chair of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In Spring 2006 he announced his retirement from the University of Virginia. In this candid interview Bond, whose grandfather was born into slavery, talks about race in America fifty years after the Brown v. Board? decision by the U.S Supreme Court.
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Julian Bond has been at the cutting edge of social change since he was a college student leading sit-in demonstrations in Atlanta in 1960. The civil rights leader faced jail for his activism and helped create the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. After 20 years as a Georgia lawmaker, Julian Bond is now a writer and the chair of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In Spring 2006 he announced his retirement from the University of Virginia. In this candid interview Bond, whose grandfather was born into slavery, talks about race in America fifty years after the Brown v. Board? decision by the U.S Supreme Court.
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Broadcast on NPR stations in Virginia the week of January 10 through January 16, 2004.
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IN CUE: (Music)
OUTCUE: ?. . . I?m Sarah McConnell. Thanks for listening.?
FOLLOWED BY :13 music bed out
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Jesse Dukes
Posted on June 02, 2005 at 11:58 AM | Permalink
Review of Julian Bond on Race in America
As a UVA alum, I listened to this with great interest. It made me wish I had taken Bond's class while at UVA. Just a well produced interview, clearly presented, well edited, with a certain depth. As white, educated, and fascinated by race in America, I felt like the program was well geared to me. I learned a little bit about Bond's personal history and the civil rights movement and then the interview turned to a quick surface discussion of race today. Sarah McConnell picked current and important topics on which Bond had something to say. Bond is clever and engaging, never at a lost for words; he is politically engaged but willing to explore truth with a degree of self-criticism. I was probably most interested in his comments on Trent Lott and parameters concerning the use of racially offensive language.
Note: I wrote this review in the Fall of 2005. As of fall of 2006, I am now working for With Good Reason as Associate Producer. I will leave the review up for now, as I stand by it, and believe it might be useful to stations. -JPD