The Panopticon Review: Two of the Most Important, Courageous, and Invaluable Public Intellectuals in the United States Today, Marc Lamont Hill and Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation about the Deadly Reality of Apartheid And The Necessity of Our Social, Ethical, and Moral Responsibility For It, the Role of Writing, and Its Intimate Connection to The War Being Waged Against Palestine by Israel and the United States

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Two of the Most Important, Courageous, and Invaluable Public Intellectuals in the United States Today, Marc Lamont Hill and Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation about the Deadly Reality of Apartheid And The Necessity of Our Social, Ethical, and Moral Responsibility For It, the Role of Writing, and Its Intimate Connection to The War Being Waged Against Palestine by Israel and the United States

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Book Bans, Reparations Regret, & Defending Controversial Views on Israel and Gaza

Marc Lamont Hill

Premiered November 9, 2024

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-sRuRgMS98

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Ta-Nehisi Coates sits down with Marc Lamont Hill on Aljazeera's 'Upfront' in a no-holds-barred conversation that tackles America’s intense culture wars on book bans, Black and LGBTQ+ literature, and what makes books so “dangerous.” Coates revisits his groundbreaking "Case for Reparations" essay, revealing a deep regret, and unpacks his controversial thoughts on Israel, Palestine, and Nat Turner's legacy. Is Coates too radical, or just telling it like it is? Dive into this intense debate on race, violence, and the cost of liberation. Don't miss this one!

Nina Simone (1933-2003)

"There's no other purpose, so far as I'm concerned, for us except to reflect the times, the situations around us and the things we're able to say through our art, the things that millions of people can't say. I think that's the function of an artist and, of course, those of us who are lucky leave a legacy so that when we're dead, we also live on. That's people like Billie Holiday and I hope that I will be that lucky, but meanwhile, the function, so far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times, whatever that might be."

Editor's Bio

Kofi Natambu, editor of The Panopticon Review, is a writer, poet, cultural critic, and political journalist whose poetry, essays, criticism, reviews, and journalism have appeared in many literary magazines, journals, newspapers, and anthologies. He is the author of a biography MALCOLM X: His Life & Work (Alpha Books) and two books of poetry: THE MELODY NEVER STOPS (Past Tents Press) and INTERVALS (Post Aesthetic Press). He was the founder and editor of SOLID GROUND: A NEW WORLD JOURNAL, a national quarterly magazine of the arts, culture, and politics and the editor of a literary anthology NOSTALGIA FOR THE PRESENT (Post Aesthetic Press). Natambu has read his work throughout the country and given many lectures and workshops at academic and arts institutions. He has taught American literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history and criticism, film studies, political science, creative writing, philosophy, critical theory, and music history and criticism (Jazz, Blues, R&B, Hip Hop) at many universities and colleges. He was also a curator in the Education Department of Detroit’s Museum of African American History. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Natambu currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife Chuleenan.

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Thursday, November 14, 2024

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