From shootings of unarmed black men to mass incarceration, this session will take on some urgent and divisive issues, including deep outrage over whether black lives really matter equally in our society. Join some of today’s smartest and most authentic voices for this important discussion. In Democracy in Black, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. argues that the black community remains in crisis as a result of the 2008 recession and that radical change is required to bridge the “value gap.” In From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, Elizabeth Hinton traces the roots of the problem of mass incarceration to Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. Shaka Senghor has firsthand experience: having served nineteen years in prison for murder, he is now an activist and author of Writing My Wrongs. Finally, Mychal Denzel Smith, in Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, tells what it was like to be a young black man coming of age during the Obama presidency. A no-holds-barred discussion moderated by Callie Crossley, host of Under the Radar on WGBH radio. Sponsored by G. Barrie Landry.