MSNBC's Chris Hayes with Natalie Moore Volumes Bookcafe and Chopin Productions

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March 31st @ 8p-11p - Spend your evening with New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning news anchor Chris Hayes and Natalie Moore, author of Chirby award-winning book South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation, discuss Hayes' new book A Colony in a Nation, which contends our nation has been fractured into two: the Colony and the Nation.

 

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3/31/17 - 3/31/17

8p-11p


March 31st @ 8p-11p -  New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning news anchor Chris Hayes and Natalie Moore, author of Chirby award-winning book South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation, discuss Hayes' new book A Colony in a Nation, which contends our nation has been fractured into two: the Colony and the Nation.


A Colony in a Nation - "America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure--wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation--reveals that racial inequality has barely improved since 1968, when Richard Nixon became our first "law and order" president. With the clarity and originality that distinguished his prescient bestseller, Twilight of the Elites, Chris Hayes upends our national conversation on policing and democracy in a book of wide-ranging historical, social, and political analysis"

Christopher Loffrado "Chris" Hayes is an American political commentator, journalist, and author. Hayes hosts All In with Chris Hayes, a weekday news and opinion television show on MSNBC. Hayes formerly hosted a weekend MSNBC show, Up with Chris Hayes. He remains an editor at large of The Nation magazine.

 

The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation - "Mayors Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel have touted and promoted Chicago as a "world class city." The skyscrapers kissing the clouds, the billion-dollar Millennium Park, Michelin-rated restaurants, pristine lake views, fabulous shopping, vibrant theater scene, downtown flower beds and stellar architecture tell one story. Yet, swept under the rug is the stench of segregation that compromises Chicago. The Manhattan Institute dubs Chicago as one of the most segregated big cities in the country. Though other cities - including Cleveland, Los Angeles, and Baltimore - can fight over that mantle, it's clear that segregation defines Chicago. And unlike many other major U.S. cities, no one race dominates. Chicago is divided equally into black, white, and Latino, each group clustered in their various turfs"

Natalie Y. Moore is the South Side bureau reporter for WBEZ, the NPR-member station in Chicago, where she's known as the South Side Lois Lane. Before joining WBEZ, she covered Detroit City Council for Detroit News. She worked as an education reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and a reporter for the Associated Press in Jerusalem. Her work has been published in Essence, Black Enterprise, the Chicago Reporter, In These Times, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune. She lives in Chicago.

 

Performers
Chris Hayes and Natalie Y. Moore

Production
Chrisopher Walls (Sound); Cindy Fandl (Photography)

Tags: Literary, American, 2017