# Event Details - **Event Name**: Sarah Jackson - A Second Sight - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 19 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Fri, 19 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: "I have been waiting for a book like this, and I’m so glad it's here." — Clint Smith, author of How the Word is PassedAbout this EventCelebrate Juneteenth with Solid State Book and Sarah Jackson, We'll be discussing her new book, A Second SightTo be held at Solid State Books on H St. NE"I have been waiting for a book like this, and I’m so glad it's here." — Clint Smith, author of How the Word is PassedSince the nation’s founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience—a “second sight”—that reveals the truth about the nation to itself. As renowned media scholar Sarah J. Jackson charts in this bold and daring masterwork, at the center of this effort has been an extraordinary cast of Black journalists, photographers, filmmakers, radio hosts, podcasters and other mediamakers who have drawn on the visionary tradition of second sight to advance democracy and broaden our most fundamental American values.When Black mediamakers raise their voices and speak uncomfortable truths about America, they shape memories of the nation and push us toward a future more closely aligned with our espoused values. For two centuries, this “second sight” has been an overlooked engine of American democracy.Drawing from W.E.B. Du Bois’s philosophical work, along with deep historical analysis and dozens of interviews with today’s most active Black mediamakers, A Second Sight shows these visionaries positioned at the margins of their industries and navigating fraught relationships to power. They’ve warned of the greatest dangers to democracy—from slavery to Nazism, and mass incarceration to misinformation. Their work is central to our culture and politics. Yet it is devalued, met with violent censure, or achieved only via ingenious work-arounds. This tension has sharpened their commitments to truth.Now one of our nation’s foremost scholars of American media, Sarah J. Jackson, presents an appraisal that situates Black mediamakers at the vanguard of telling the American story. Brilliant, urgent and illuminating, A Second Sight is an authentic and candid grappling with a discordant thread in the American fabric and, in tracing a bolder vision for the nation, presents a way forward. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/fc6e4a50-4bbb-11f1-8534-6b647259181b-rimg-w490-h740-dc000000-gmir.jpg Sarah J. Jackson is an Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and co-director of the Media, Inequality and Change Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Her previous books, Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press and #HashtagActivism, examine the relationship between media, race and social change. She was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship and New America Fellowship to support research on A Second Sight. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/fca4c3a0-4bbb-11f1-a995-afc12287912d-rimg-w493-h740-dc141616-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/washington/sarah-jackson-a-second-sight/100001988864778090 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, sports, fine-arts, photography, nonprofit, juneteenth - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 40, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Washington - **state**: DC - **country**: United States - **location**: Solid State Books - **lat**: 38.9005105 - **long**: -76.9975298 - **full address**: Solid State Books, 600F H Street Northeast, Washington, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Sarah Jackson - A Second Sight - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/ffec297cbbfcaf1d867df2253db2594efdf92c6e360d936574a7b1ff18f6d970-rimg-w1200-h600-dc1e305d-gmir.jpg?v=1778340621 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Sarah Jackson - A Second Sight being held? - **A:** Sarah Jackson - A Second Sight takes place on Fri, 19 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Fri, 19 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Solid State Books, 600F H Street Northeast, Washington, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Sarah Jackson - A Second Sight? - **A:** Sarah Jackson - A Second Sight is organized by Solid State Books. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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