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Host Kathy Barrett interviews people from around the world from writers to politicians to creatives and innovators who share how overcoming challenges and obstacles led them to discover their true life's purpose. Our guests are up to fascinating things in life, and all share a similar goal -- to contribute to our world in order to make it a better place to live for all of us.
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Dispatches from the Race War
Meet Tim Wise
Author, Anti Racist, Educator
A Voice For Our Time

A Conversation with Author, Educator, and American Activist Tim Wise
The rise of racism, bigotry, antisemitism, and nazism is a call to action for each of us. I invite you to answer that call by listening to one of the most important voices of our time, TIM WISE.
Tim Wise, is among the nation’s most prominent antiracist essayists and educators. He has spent the past 25 years speaking to audiences in all 50 states, on over 1000 college and high school campuses, at hundreds of professional and academic conferences, and to community groups across the nation. He has served as an adjunct professor at the Smith College School of Social Work, in Northampton, MA., and from 1999-2003 was an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute in Nashville, TN.
Wise is the author of several critically acclaimed books, Dispatches From The Race War , White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, Between Barack And A Hard Place, DearWhite America: Letter to a New Minority, and Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America, White LIES Matter: Race, Crime and the Politics of Fear in America , Speaking Treason Fluently Antiracist Reflections From An Angry White Male.
Wise was featured in several documentaries, including “The Great White Hoax: Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America,” and “White Like Me: Race, Racism and White Privilege in America.” Media presence includes dozens of appearances on CNN, MSNBC and NPR among others. Videos posted on social media platforms have received over 20 million views. His podcast, “Speak Out with Tim Wise,” features weekly interviews with activists, scholars and artists about movement building and strategies for social change.
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