American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

Wesley Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, and one of America’s leading reporters on issues of race and justice. He chronicled the early years of the Black Lives Matter movement and launched Fatal Force, a real-time national database of people shot and killed by the police. His most recent book, American Whitelash, chronicles the rise in white supremacist violence in the United States in the years since Barack Obama’s was elected.

Rachel Perkins is a proud Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman, and the writer, director and producer of award-winning television drama, documentaries and feature films, including The Australian Wars series, Bran Nue Dae, Redfern Now, Mystery Road and First Australians. Through a career spanning over 30 years in film and media, Rachel has been an educator, leader and mentor, inspiring the next generations of First Nations storytellers.