On a Wednesday night in the heart of downtown Inglewood, people file into the Miracle Theater, a 1930s moviehouse remade into a space for live theater that also hosts community and cultural events. The Miracle is part of what locals hope will be this historically Black Southern California city’s revival, its name reflecting both great optimism and frank acknowledgement of the steep odds of the success of economic justice that’s decades overdue.
It’s a fitting venue for tonight’s discussion with Ibram X. Kendi, the scholar, historian and author of multiple books, including the bestselling How to Be an Antiracist. He is here to speak to how Black success everywhere is being steadily imperiled by the embrace of a white nationalist conspiracy theory that threatens to quash social and racial progress in America and across the globe.
