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Ken Light has worked as a documentary photographer and filmmaker for over fifty years, focusing on social issues facing America. His books include Course of the Empire, What’s Going On? 1969–1974, Valley of Shadows and Dreams, Witness in Our Time, and Picturing Resistance. His work has been presented in over 250 exhibitions worldwide, and he is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts photographers' fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts survey grant, and the Dorothea Lange Fellowship. Light is the Reva and David Logan Professor of Photojournalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Visit his website at kenlight.com. Ishmael Reed is the author of numerous books including Mumbo Jumbo, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, and Blues City: A Walk in Oakland. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has lived in Oakland since 1979.
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