Gary Dorrien has been described by philosopher Cornel West as “the preeminent social ethicist in North America.”
Dorrien is an Episcopal priest, a professor of religion at Columbia University and is the winner of the 2017 Grawemeyer Award in religion for his book, “The New Abolition: W. E. B. DuBois and the Black Social Gospel.”
Dorrien spoke with WFPL’s Bill Burton about the book and the beginning of the civil rights movement.
