![]() ![]() ![]() Now, in Defining Moments in Black History, Gregory charts the empowering yet often obscured past of the African American experience. But Gregory has always kept it indisputably real when discussing race in America, fearlessly lacing laughter with controversial truths in a manner that is inimitable his own. Known as much for his comedic achievements-as an actor, author, and social critic-as for his activism, Gregory is the forebearer of todays new generation of black comics, including W. and Medgar Evers, Gregory is an unrelenting, lifelong activist against social injustice, whether he was marching in Selma during the Civil Rights movement or organizing student demonstrations to protest the Vietnam War, participating in rallies for Native American and feminist rights or fighting apartheid in South Africa. Book Synopsis Dick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr. In his unapologetically candid voice, he moves from African ancestry and surviving the Middle Passage to the creation of the Jheri Curl, the enjoyment of bacon and everything pig, the headline-making shootings of black men, and the Black Lives Matter. About the Book In this collection of essays, Gregory charts the complex and often obscured history of the African American experience. ![]()
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