Carol M. Swain, PhD

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Host of the Podcast — Be the People | “Conversations with Dr. Carol Swain”

Carol Swain is the host of the podcast Be the People and “Conversations with Dr. Carol Swain” an Internet talk show on YouTube and Rumble. She is also the author or editor of nine books. Her work Black Faces, Black Interests has won three national awards and her The New White Nationalism in America was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Her book Be the People: A Call to Reclaim America’s Faith and Promise has been re-released (2021) with a new introduction and audio version. Swain is a former professor of political science at Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities and a professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School. She was a Nashville mayoral candidate in 2018/2019. Swain's opinion pieces have been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. She holds a Ph. D from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

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Be the People Project is dedicated to changing the direction of America’s culture by: Relentlessly educating people about conservative values and...

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