Author: Joan Steinau Lester in Conversation with Jewelle Gomez

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Hear Joan Steinau Lester discuss her book, Loving Before Loving. Committed to the struggle for civil rights, in the late 1950s, Lester marched and protested as a white ally and young woman coming to terms with her own racism. She fell in love and married a fellow activist, the Black writer Julius Lester, establishing a partnership that was long and multifaceted but not free of the politics of race and gender.