New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie joins award-winning journalist Juan Williams for a conversation on Williams’ new book, New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement, exploring the emergence of a new civil rights era—from the 2008 election of President Obama to the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Thomas Donnelly, chief scholar at the National Constitution Center, moderates.
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Jamelle Bouie is a columnist for the New York Times and political analyst for CBS News. Prior to the Times, he was chief political correspondent for Slate magazine. And before that, he was a staff writer at The Daily Beast and held fellowships at The American Prospect and The Nation magazine.
Juan Williams is a prizewinning journalist and historian. He is the author of the bestselling book, Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954–1965, which accompanied the PBS series of the same name. He also wrote the landmark biography, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, as well as the New York Times bestsellers Enough and Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate. His new book is New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement.
Thomas Donnelly is chief scholar at the National Constitution Center. Prior to joining the Center in 2016, he served as counsel at the Constitutional Accountability Center, as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, and as a law clerk for Judge Thomas Ambro on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Additional Resources
- Juan Williams, New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement (2025)
- Jamelle Bouie, “Discussing Trayvon Martin, Obama Embraces his Blackness,” The American Prospect (July 19, 2013)
- Jamelle Bouie, opinion columnist, The New York Times
- Civil Rights Movement
- Reconstruction
- Thomas Ricks, Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 (2022)
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