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DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Neil Henry \n\nTickets: $12 advance, $15 door, at supporting 
 bookstores\nOr on line: www.kpfa.org/events\nBenefits KPFA Radio\nInfo:  
 510.848-6767X609  or  www.kpfa.org/events\n\nGwen Ifill is the well-known 
 PBS moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and senior 
 correspondent of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Before coming to PBS, she 
 was chief congressional and political correspondent for NBC News, and had 
 been a reporter for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Baltimore 
 Sun, and Boston Herald American. \n\nIn THE BREAKTHROUGH, this veteran 
 journalist provides an in-depth investigation of black political power in a 
 post-Civil Rights era of promise and peril. She surveys the American 
 political landscape and sheds new light on the impact of Barack Obama's 
 stunning presidential campaign, while introducing the many emerging young 
 African American politicians forging bold new paths to political 
 power.\n\nIfill argues that the black political structure formed during the 
 Civil Rights movement is giving way to the generation of men and women who 
 are the direct beneficiaries of the struggle of the 1960s.  She offers 
 incisive, detailed profiles of such prominent leaders as Newark Mayor Cory 
 Booker, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, and U.S. Congressman Artur 
 Davis of Alabama, and also covers up-and-coming figures from across the 
 nation.  Drawing on interviews with power brokers like Senator Obama, 
 former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vernon Jordan, the Reverend Jesse 
 Jackson, and many others, as well as her own razor-sharp observations and 
 analysis of such issues as generational conflict and the "black enough" 
 conundrum, Ifill shows why this is a pivotal moment in American 
 history.\n\nNeil Henry is a professor and dean of the Graduate School of 
 Journalism at UC Berkeley. His career has included 16 award-winning years 
 at the Washington Post as a metro, national, and investigative reporter, 
 and a foreign correspondent based in Africa. He has written for Newsweek, 
 Mother Jones, and Smithsonian. He earned his BA degree in political science 
 from Princeton, and his Master's in journalism from Columbia. Dean Henry is 
 the author of two books. The first, Pearl's Secret, published in 2001, was 
 a well-received memoir investigating his family's interracial history 
 dating back to the antebellum South. His most recent book was published 
 last year and is entitled: American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an 
 Age of New Media. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/03/18558109.php
SUMMARY:Gwen Ifill: The Breakthrough: Politics and race in the Age of Obama
LOCATION:First Congregational Church, 2501 Harrison St, Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/03/18558109.php
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