BLACK LIVES MATTER
and the Pandemic of RACISM
A Town Hall Conversation with
W. Kamau Bell

Arizona State University continues its Live from ASU virtual event series with BLACK LIVES MATTER and the Pandemic of RACISM: A Town Hall Conversation with W. Kamau Bell, streaming live on Thursday, August 27 at 7:00 p.m. at livefromasu.com. Bell will speak about the Black Lives Matter movement and systemic racism in America. Bell is known for his critically acclaimed and award-winning docu-series on CNN, United Shades of America.

This event will be streamed live free for the entire community and feature a panel discussion moderated by ASU Vice President for Cultural Affairs, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, with a Q&A session with ASU students and members of the ASU Community to follow.

Send in your questions for W. Kamau Bell and our panel using the #ASUlive

“We are currently living through two pandemics in this country, and systemic racism will be the harder one to defeat,” says Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, ASU Vice President for Cultural Affairs. “This special town hall will be the first in a series of events focused on this important issue that is so vital to the ASU and local community.”

W. Kamau Bell is a sociopolitical comedian and the host of the Emmy Award winning CNN docu-series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell. He recently made his Netflix debut with the stand-up comedy special, Private School Negro. Kamau has a book with the easy-to-remember title The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6’ 4”, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian. He is the director of the critically-acclaimed documentary Cultureshock: Chris Rock’s Bring the Pain. Kamau has hosted three critically-acclaimed podcasts Kamau Right Now!, Politically Re-Active, and Denzel Washington is the Greatest Actor of All Time Period. Kamau is on the advisory board of Hollaback! and Donors Choose and is the ACLU Celebrity Ambassador for Racial Justice. The New York Times called Kamau “the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years.”

Kamau has been nominated for multiple NAACP Image Awards and a GLAAD award, and he was featured on Code Nast’s ‘Daring 20’ list for 2016. The SF Weekly called Kamau “smart, stylish, and very much in the mold of politically outspoken comedians like Dave Chappelle,” though he was mostly just excited that they called him “handsome.” The New Yorker said, “Bell’s gimmick is intersectional progressivism: he treats racial, gay, and women’s issues as inseparable.” Kamau is also known for his criminally short-lived FX & FXX comedy series, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell.