On this episode of Keen On, Andrew Keen and Professor Peniel Joseph, author of The Sword and the Shield, talk about Black Lives Matter and the dangerous crossroads at which racial tension in America finds itself.

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Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written several previous books on African American history, including Stokely: A Life. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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