Join DSA members Andrew Wilkes and Gary Dorrien for a conversation with Dorothee Benz about their latest books.

Bring finger food to share or just bring yourself. All are welcome!

Speakers

Dorothee Benz

Dorothee Benz, a writer, organizer, and strategist who has spent decades on the frontlines of social justice struggles in the United States, will talk with them about how we get from here to there.

Gary Dorrien

Longtime DSA member Gary Dorrien has documented the tremendous role that the Black social gospel tradition has played in this quest for justice in the trilogy The New Abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel, Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel, and A Darkly Radiant Vision: The Black Social Gospel in the Shadow of MLK. His forthcoming memoir will be published this fall.

Andrew Wilkes

In his forthcoming Plenty Good Room, Andrew Wilkes, political scientist and co-pastor of the Double Love Experience Church in Brooklyn, makes a case for anti-imperial, democratic socialisms, drawing on the traditions of Black social Christianity and the Black radical tradition. Wilkes is also the co-author of Psalms for Black Lives: Reflections for the Work of Liberation and the author of Freedom Notes: Reflections on Faith, Justice, and the Possibility of Democracy.