In his unapologetically candid voice, he moves from African ancestry and surviving the Middle Passage to the enjoyment of bacon and everything pig, the headline-making shootings of black men, and the Black Lives Matter movement. In this collection of thoughtful, provocative essays, Gregory charts the complex and often obscured history of the African American experience. As a leading activist against injustice, he marched at Selma during the Civil Rights movement, organized student rallies to protest the Vietnam War sat in at rallies for Native American and feminist rights fought apartheid in South Africa and participated in hunger strikes in support of Black Lives Matter. As an entertainer, he always kept it indisputably real about race issues in America, fearlessly lacing laughter with hard truths. Kamau Bell, Damon Young, and Trevor Noah, Dick Gregory was a provocative and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years. and Medgar Evers, and the forebear of today's popular black comics, including Larry Wilmore, W. NAACP 2017 Image Award WinnerWith his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America.A friend of luminaries including Dr.
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