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Darnell Moore on coming of age black and free in America

  

On this edition of Your Call, we speak with writer and Black Lives Matter activist Darnell Moore about his memoir, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America.

When Moore was 14, three boys from his neighborhood harassed him because they thought he was gay. They tried to set him on fire. He barely escaped. In the retelling of his own experiences, Moore also studies the oppression of those on the margins and celebrates the lives of black LGBTQ people who came before him. What stories are left untold in our national conversation about race, poverty, and discrimination?

Guests:

Darnell Moore, writer, Black Lives Matter activist, and author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America

Web Resources:

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Darnell L. Moore's 'No Ashes in the Fire': Coming of age queer, male, and black

Colorlines: QUOTABLE: 3 Excerpts From Darnell L. Moore's Luminous Debut, 'No Ashes in the Fire'

Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.