NEW PRIZE FOR THESE EYES The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement

Journalist and television personality Juan Williams's audiobook arrives four decades after his first book, EYES ON THE PRIZE (1987), which covered the mid-twentieth-century Civil Rights movement. This work argues that Barack Obama's presidency and the development of the social media age reflect the emergence of a second civil rights movement. Fueled in part by police killings of Black men and women and Obama's epoch-making political success, this movement arises with Internet speed while battling white nationalism and expanded racism--against Asians and Jews, as well as Black people. Williams, who has a lot of broadcast experience on radio as well as television, narrates clearly and with conviction. His audiobook ends with an examination of the gains of the Biden administration, which now seem short-lived. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2025]