Desmond Cole hosts Maclean's Live with a panel of Black Canadian writers

Maclean’s Live caps a two-week series on systemic racism, diversity and the Black Lives Matter movement with guest host Desmond Cole, author of The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power, and an extraordinary group of writers, commentators and artists on Wednesday, June 17 at 7 p.m. EDT:

Esi Edugyan, author of the Giller Prize-winning novels Half-Blood Blues and Washington Black (https://www.harpercollins.ca/author/cr-167907/esi-edugyan/)

Robyn Maynard, Vanier Scholar and award-winning author of Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present (https://robynmaynard.com/, https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/policing-black-lives)

Syrus Marcus Ware, Vanier Scholar, a visual artist, community activist, researcher, youth-advocate and educator (https://syrusmarcusware.com/)

Ian Williams, poet and novelist, professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia, author of the Giller Prize-winning novel Reproduction (http://www.ianwilliams.ca/books)

Read the Letters to America package here: https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/letters-to-america-from-black-canadians/

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