Chris Hayes discusses his book, A Colony in a Nation

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Published on Apr 7, 2017

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Emmy Award–winning MSNBC news anchor Chris Hayes, author of the New York Times bestselling book 'Twilight of the Elites' came to Boston for a panel discussion on inequality in America. He was joined at the Old South Church by Emerson College's Jabari Asim and Suffolk University Law School's Frank Rudy Cooper. Anthony Brooks moderated the conversation.

In his latest book, 'A Colony in a Nation', Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a colony and a nation. America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure—wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation—reveals that racial inequality has barely improved since 1968, when Richard Nixon became our first “law and order” president.

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