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One of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Most Anticipated History Books for Fall 2024
“This book is a crucial asset and resource for today’s society. Resist encapsulates the everlasting and unwavering fight for justice and equality led by the trailblazing activists from decades past who are still influencing young Black leaders today.” —Sunny Hostin, Emmy-winning co-host of The View and New York Times bestselling author of I Am These Truths
Please join us here at Barnes & Noble Upper West Side in welcoming Rita Omokha celebrating the release of RESIST: HOW A CENTURY OF YOUNG BLACK ACTIVISTS SHAPED AMERICA. A purchase of RESIST: HOW A CENTURY OF YOUNG BLACK ACTIVISTS SHAPED AMERICA from Barnes & Noble Upper West Side is required to attend this event. Please call ahead and speak to a bookseller and reserve your copy.
Rita will be in conversation with Cari Champion.
Rita Omokha is an award-winning Nigerian American journalist. Her writing on politics, race, and vulnerable communities has been featured on CNN and in Cosmopolitan, The Daily Beast, Elle, Glamour, The Guardian, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, WIRED, and elsewhere. She has written about policing in America, federal inaction on growing numbers of COVID orphans, and missing and murdered Indigenous women. She’s an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she graduated at the top of the 2020 class, receiving some of the institution’s highest awards, including the Pulitzer Prize Traveling Fellowship.
Cari Champion is an esteemed and trailblazing broadcast journalist, sports anchor, and television personality whose dynamic career has left an indelible mark on the media industry. Best known for her nearly decade-long tenure at ESPN, where she co-anchored SportsCenter’s Coast to Coast, hosted SportsNation, and moderated the popular debate show First Take, Champion has become a trusted voice in pop culture and sports. She continues to expand her influence as the host of the thought-provoking podcast Naked with Cari Champion, where she engages in candid conversations with thought leaders and culture-shifters. Champion’s versatility shines through her work across major networks, including hosting TNT’s The Arena, co-anchoring NBC’s Tokyo Tonight during the 2020 Summer Olympics, and making history as one of the first Black women to host a late-night cable show, Cari & Jemele: Stick to Sports, on Vice TV. A frequent contributor to CNN and host of the eponymous Cari Champion Show on Amazon, she remains a powerful force in media, celebrated for her authenticity, insight, and ability to spark meaningful dialogue.
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82nd & Broadway
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