Etan Thomas, a former 11-year NBA player, was born in Harlem and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has published multiple books, including We Matter: Athletes and Activism (voted a top-10 best activism book of all time by BookAuthority), More than an Athlete, Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge, and Voices of the Future. Thomas received the 2010 National Basketball Players Association Community Contribution Award as well as the 2009 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Foundation Legacy Award, both honoring his advocacy for social justice. He is a senior writer for BasketballNews.com and a regular contributor to the Guardian and the Undefeated. He can frequently be seen on MSNBC as a special correspondent and cohosts a weekly show with Dave Zirin called "The Collision: Where Sports and Politics Collide."

Thomas will be joined in conversation with Yamiche Alcindor, the moderator of Washington Week, the Peabody Award-winning weekly news-analysis series on PBS. Alcindor also serves as White House correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and a political contributor for NBC News and MSNBC.

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