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Author Omo Moses sits down with esteemed Ptownie Don Collins to discuss his recent release, The White Peril: A Family Memoir.
From the son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses: a brilliant, unflinching memoir about becoming Black in America that interweaves voices from 3 generations of the Moses family.
In The White Peril, Omo Moses deftly interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather’s sermons and the writings of his father, the civil rights activist Bob Moses. The result is a powerful chorus of voices that spans 3 generations of an African American family, all shining a light on the Black experience, all calling fiercely for racial justice.
Omo was born in 1972 in Tanzania, where his parents had fled to escape targeted harassment by the US government. He did not encounter white supremacy until the family moved back to America when he was 4. Here he learned what it meant to be Black. He came of age in a Black enclave of Cambridge, Massachusetts, became a passionate basketball player, lived in the shadow of his father’s Civil Rights work but did not feel like a part of it until his college basketball career came to an unceremonious end. Unsure what to do next, he took up his father’s offer to go with him to Mississippi and teach math to Algebra Project students. Omo didn’t know it yet, but it was among those young people that he would find his purpose.
This book is at once a coming-of-age story, a multigenerational family memoir, an epic father-son road trip, a searing account of the Black male experience, and a work that powerfully revives Rev. Moses’s demand for liberation.
Omo Moses is an entrepreneur, author, producer, and organizer. He is currently the founder and chief executive of MathTalk, a public benefit, ed-tech company based in Cambridge, MA . He is the former Executive Director and a founding member of the Young People’s Project; producer of the award-winning documentary, Finding Our Folk, which features the Grammy-nominated Hot 8 Brass Band; and author of two books, Sometimes We Do (2019) and The White Peril (2025). He is the father of Johari and Kamara Moses.
Don Collins owns the John Randall House B&B and serves as a Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum Trustee since 2022. Born in Washington, DC., Don spent much of his childhood overseas. He has a Master’s degree in Higher Education and Don worked at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania before working at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) where he became the Development Director of Student Affairs and Head Cheerleading coach. Don first made his way to Provincetown in 2010. He has now been running the John Randall House for thirteen years.
“You don’t know where change is going to take you. But you know that if you’re part of it, you can help direct that change.” –Don Collins