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Thomas Chatterton Williams - Author

Duration: 24 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC News Latin AmericaLatest broadcast: on BBC News Middle East

Not just in the United States, but across the world the Black Lives Matter movement has prompted debate about race, identity and power. It is a campaign predicated on ideas about what it means to be black and white; but what if those very terms are themselves part of the problem? Stephen Sackur speaks to Thomas Chatterton William, a mixed race American writer and a self-declared ex-black man whose ideas present a challenge to so-called woke culture. How much room is there right now for respectful, thoughtful debate? Show less

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Presenter:
Stephen Sackur
Interviewed Guest:
Thomas Chatterton Williams

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