Cambridge Forum is pleased to feature Omo Moses, son of legendary civil rights organizer, Robert P. Moses, talking about his new book, The White Peril.

The book is a coming-of-age story, a multigenerational diary, a father-son road trip, a searing account of the Black male experience, and a work that powerfully revives Reverend Moses’s demand for liberation. Moses deftly interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather’s sermons and the writings of his father, Bob Moses. The result is a compelling memoir that spans three generations of an African-American family, shining a light on the Black experience, and demanding racial justice. Omo will be joined in conversation by Jack Tchen, the Clement A. Price Professor of Public History & Humanities, and Director of the Price Institute on Ethnicity, Cultures, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University. Tchen, author '"Yellow Peril! An archive of anti-Asian fear" (2016) will be in dialogue with Omo Moses' about Western colonial fears of the non-white Protestant/Christian world. Reverend Moses' remarkable 1919 "White Peril" and Tchen's "Yellow Peril!" get to the roots of liberation struggles, peace-making, and global wellbeing today, especially in the era of climate chaos.

Paris Alston, host of GBH News moderates the discussion.

Listen to Cambridge Forum archived interview with Bob Moses here .