What a radical basketball coach looks like; Kamilah Forbes brings Ta-Nehisi Coates’s words to life

In this episode of “The Marc Steiner Show,” Marc discusses John Thompson’s legacy as one of the most politically radical college basketball coaches of our time with Jesse Washington, writer for ESPN’s “The Undefeated” and co-author of Thompson’s autobiography, “I Came as a Shadow.” In the second segment, Marc talks with Executive Producer at the Apollo Theater Kamilah Forbes about the politics of her dramatic stage and screen adaptations of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s bestselling book, “Between the World and Me.”

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