Feb 28, 2017
This week on Colombia Calling our guest host Laura Brown is back
and is talking to Janelle Gray, a Texan author living in Bogota,
about her new book.
Entitled, "Echoes of the Struggle" Gray's work is about the civil
rights movement in the United States. It takes the 1960s American
Civil Rights Movement and places it in 2014 among the deaths of
unarmed Blacks and racial divide.
According to Gray, this juxtaposition of injustice forces the
conversations we should be having within our interracial
communities thus fostering a better understanding of the effects
our history continues to have on our present.
The author also touches on race issues in Colombia and how they can
be compared to those in the US, while acknowledging that our host
country is far more welcoming to foreigners than is the case in the
US.
Read more about Echoes of the Struggle or purchase the book from
http://www.echoesofthestruggle.com/
You can also join the conversation by contributing to the blog at
the same address.