[Unedited] Isabel Wilkerson with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Go to the doctor and they won’t begin to treat you without taking your history — and not just yours, but that of your parents and grandparents before you. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson points this out as she reflects on her epic work of narrative nonfiction, The Warmth of Other Suns. She’s immersed herself in the stories of the Great Migration, the movement of six million African Americans to northern U.S. cities in the 20th century. The book is a carrier of histories and truths that help make sense of human and social challenges at the heart of our life together now.

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0:00.0	Support for on-being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world.
0:07.0	Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding principle and animating force for our lives,
0:13.0	a powerful love that helps us live in sacred relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world.
0:19.0	Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.
0:22.0	I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson.
0:29.0	There is, as always, a shorter produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.
0:36.0	Thank you so much, Alicia. That was beautiful.
0:43.0	So, good evening. Welcome back to those of you who are returning.
0:48.0	My name is Rick Chess, and I'd like to call on my partners in organizing this festival, Evan Gurney and Fred Bonson,
0:56.0	who I don't know where Fred is, is right there. Good, awesome.
1:01.0	So, I'm the director of the Center for Jewish Studies at UNC Asheville, and I'm a member of the English department.
1:07.0	And together with my dear friends and colleagues and co-conspirators, we have organized what has turned out to be a really extraordinary two-day festival,
1:17.0	called Faith in Literature, a festival of contemporary writers of the spirit.
1:22.0	Evan is a colleague of mine at UNCA. I was lucky enough to participate in the process of recruiting and hiring Evan,
1:32.0	and I've been really so honored to get to work from him and learn from him since he's arrived.
1:38.0	And Fred is the amazing author of Soil and Sacrament, as well as another book and many other pieces of writing.
1:45.0	Fred is the director of the Food, Health, and Ecological Well-being program at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity.
1:52.0	Did I get it right? I got it right. Good. And so, we partnered together, UNC Asheville and Wake Forest University School of Divinity,
1:59.0	to really bring this fantastic event to you. So, thank you to both of our partners.
2:06.0	I'd like to welcome now Chancellor Mary Grant to offer us a welcome, and she'll immediately be followed by Fred,
2:19.0	with a few words of welcome from Wake Forest.
2:24.0	Thank you, Rick, and welcome everyone to UNC Asheville for this wonderful evening of conversation and enrichment.
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