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Trevor Noah Speaks With The Times About Race and Identity Trevor Noah Speaks With The Times About Race and Identity
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Race relations in the United States have been a central component in many of this year’s major news stories. White nationalists rallied in Charlottesville, Va., after the City Council voted to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee. Black athletes have protested police brutality and racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem.Race relations in the United States have been a central component in many of this year’s major news stories. White nationalists rallied in Charlottesville, Va., after the City Council voted to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee. Black athletes have protested police brutality and racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem.
Amid that climate, Trevor Noah, host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central and author of “Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood,” will discuss issues of race and identity on Sunday night during a conversation that is part of Get With The Times, a new live event series for college students designed to inspire discussion around topics that are important to them. He will be interviewed by John Eligon, a New York Times national correspondent who writes about race. On Oct. 15, amid that climate, Trevor Noah, host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central and author of “Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood,” discussed issues of race and identity during a conversation that was part of Get With The Times, a new live event series for college students designed to inspire discussion around topics that are important to them. He was interviewed by John Eligon, a New York Times national correspondent who writes about race.
Mr. Noah will answer questions submitted by college students tuning in from watch parties that have been set up on campuses across the country. During the talk, Mr. Noah answered questions submitted by college students tuning in from watch parties that had been set up on campuses across the country.
When: Sunday, Oct. 15, from 8 to 9 p.m. Eastern time. Interested in sharing how you’ve experienced race and ethnicity on your own college campus? Email your stories to oncampus@nytimes.com. (Some responses may published on our website.)
How to watch: The discussion will be streamed live on this web page as well as The Times’s Conferences YouTube channel and Facebook page. Watch the full discussion below, along with some of Mr. Noah’s commentary and Mr. Eligon’s reporting from earlier this year.
Where: Cahn Auditorium at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. _____
Leave your questions for Mr. Noah in the comments. And before Sunday’s discussion, watch some of Mr. Noah’s commentary and read some of Mr. Eligon’s reporting from this year.
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