The Informer

6 Sep 2019

DeRay McKesson: The Case for Hope

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Civil rights activist, writer and podcast host DeRay McKesson talks to The Informer. He spoke to Arion Potts and Nicholas Kameniar Sandery about police violence, how to have hope in hard times, white privilege and his new book On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope. DeRay was in Melbourne for the Melbourne Writer’s Festival.

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