This Week in Blackness RADIO #TWIBRADIO
Session Type(s): Special Event
Starts: Friday, Jun. 8 10:30 AM
Ends: Friday, Jun. 8 11:45 AM
Room: Exhibit Hall Sponsored Stage
Check out the Award winning online radio show This Week in Blackness RADIO #TWIBRADIO Featuring Elon James White (Creator of This Week in Blackness, MSNBC, VH1) Political Strategist L. Joy Williams (NY1, TWiB! News Coordinator) and Aaron Rand Freeman (Editor, 2Cents, TWiB!) tackling the latest in politics, race and much, much more.
Panelists
Aaron Freeman
Aaron Rand Freeman is a production assistant and Co-Host of the award-winning podcast, Blacking It Up!
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Elon James White
Elon James White is a Brooklyn-based comedian, writer and creator of the award-winning web series This Week in Blackness, a satirical look at race, politics and pop-culture in a so-called “post-racial” America and the award winning podcast Blacking it Up! White has been a featured commentator on MSNBC’s The Melissa Harris Perry Show, VH1′s “Black to the Future”, “The Great Debate” and HLN’s “The Joy Behar Show.” His commentary on race and politics has been featured on CNN.com, Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, Giant Magazine, Salon, Alternet & The Root. Praised as “The perfect comedian for the Obama era, talking race while exploding racial stereotypes” by Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry on Politco.com & as “Precise, thought provoking and hilarious” by Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead, White continues to win accolades from critics, academia and audiences alike
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L. Joy Williams
L. Joy Williams is a political strategist, founder of LJW Community Strategies, and Co-Host and News Coordinator of the award winning and widely popular podcast and radio show Blacking It Up!
Ms. Williams has been featured on BET, Pacifica Radio in New York and Los Angeles, is a frequent contributor on NY1’s Inside City Hall, NewsOne.com and The Brock Report and serves as a strategic adviser to elected leaders and organizations across the country.
Ms. Williams is founding Chairman of Higher Heights for America, 1st Vice-President of the Brooklyn NAACP, National Board Member of PAC+ and serves on her local community board as a resident of Bedford Stuyvesant.
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