Shelby Steele Interview | Race and Liberty in America: "What Killed Michael Brown?"

March 16, 2021

In this compelling Independent Conversation, renowned civil rights scholar and bestselling author Dr. Shelby Steele is interviewed by Independent Institute Executive Director Dr. Graham H. Walker on the issues of race, liberty, and law in America, and in the process, they examine the crucial issues addressed in Dr. Steele's documentary, "What Killed Michael Brown?"

Shelby Steele is the Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for his book, "The Content of Our Character: A Vision of Race in America," the Bradley Foundation Prize for Outstanding Achievement, and the National Humanities Medal. In 1991, his work on the documentary, "Seven Days in Bensonhurst," was recognized with an Emmy Award and two awards for television documentary writing—the Writer’s Guild Award and the San Francisco Film Festival Award. Among his other books are "White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era" and "A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America."

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WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY:

"What Killed Michael Brown?" with Shelby Steele
https://whatkilledmichaelbrown.com/

BUY THE BOOKS:

"White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era," by Shelby Steele
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"A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America," by Shelby Steele
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"The Content of Our Character: A Vision of Race in America," by Shelby Steele
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"T.R.M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer," by David Beito & Linda Royster Beito:
http://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=128

"Race and Liberty in America: The Essential Reader," edited by Jonathan Bean
https://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=80

"Securing Civil Rights: Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms," by Stephen P. Halbrook
https://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=85

"The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society," edited by David T. Beito, Peter Gordon and Alexander Tabarrok, with a foreword by Paul Johnson
https://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=17

"To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice," by Bruce L. Benson, with a foreword by Marvin E. Wolfgang
https://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=21

"Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government," by Robert Higgs, with a foreword by Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.
https://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=101

"In All Fairness: Equality, Liberty, and the Quest for Human Dignity," edited by Robert M. Whaples, Michael C. Munger, and Christopher J. Coyne, with a foreword by Richard A. Epstein
https://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=132

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