Joan Walsh, a national affairs correspondent for The Nation, is a coproducer of The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show and the author of What’s the Matter With White People?

“When he first kissed me, I just swooned, and I had to sit down,” she said in a 2015 documentary film, Joan Walsh Anglund: Life in Story and Poem, by Tim Jackson, a long-time family frien ...