Ep. 115 Heroes Walk Among Us with Bakari Sellers
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In 2006, at the age of 22, Bakari Sellers made history as the youngest person ever elected to the South Carolina state legislature, and the youngest African American elected official in the country. He is now a CNN analyst and the author of a brand new memoir, My Vanishing Country. We talk today with Bakari about the civil rights movements of the past and present, how he hopes we move forward as a nation, and the perseverance it took to get his book published.
The Stacks Book Club selection for June is Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe, we will discuss the book with Emma Copley Eisenberg on June 24th.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas and before we get to our guest, Bakari Sellers, |
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| 1:01.3 | Okay, our guest today is Bakari Sell Sellers, author of my vanishing country. In 2006, |
| 1:06.0 | Bicari burst on the political scene at 22 years old as the youngest state |
| 1:10.0 | representative in the South Carolina legislature and the youngest |
| 1:14.0 | African-American elected official in the United States. He is currently a |
| 1:18.0 | political analyst at CNN. Today we talk about the civil rights movements of the |
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