One Book, One San Diego Author Talk with Heather McGhee

One Book, One San Diego Author Event with Heather McGhee

In-Person: Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Join KPBS for a special event with Heather McGhee, author of “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together.” Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policymaking. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out?

One Book, One San Diego is our region's premier literary program, presented in partnership between KPBS and over 80 public libraries, service organizations and educational institutions. Now in its 17th year, the purpose is to bring our community closer together through the shared experience of reading and discussing the same book.

Please register for this event with KPBS here.  KPBS registered guests will be given first priority, with in-person attendants admitted as available. Registration through the library does not guarantee seats.