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W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour

Mon, January 25, 2016
Dinner Program
W. Kamau Bell

Mr. Bell offers up a mix of stand-up comedy, video and audio clips, personal stories, real information, and solo theatrical performance to explore and highlight the current state of racism in America.

 

W. Kamau Bell has emerged as a post-modern voice of socio-political comedy. Named an Ambassador of Racial Justice by the ACLU, W. Kamau Bell is best known for his critically acclaimed TV show, Totally Biased. His new show United Shades of America will premier on CNN in early 2016.

Kamau also co-hosts the podcast The Field Negro Guide to Arts & Culture with Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid; he writes the blog “Kamau’s Komedy Korner” for the San Francisco Weekly; and he sits on the board of The Applied Research Center, a racial justice think tank and home for media and activism.

Praised by Punchline Magazine as “one of our nation’s most adept racial commentators with a blistering wit,” Kamau was voted San Francisco’s best comedian by the SF Weekly, the SF Bay Guardian, and 7×7 Magazine. The New York Times called him “the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years.” The late Robin Williams calls Kamau “ferociously funny,” and Vernon Reid of the band Living Colour offers the offering: “W. Kamau Bell is in the vanguard of a new era of American comedy for an unsettling, troubling, and strangely hopeful time.”

Read more about W. Kamau Bell…

Food for Thought: Podcast with W. Kamu Bell

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