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b'Before fake news dominated headlines,\\xa0Kevin Young\\xa0was tracking down its roots.\\n\\nThe author of 13 books of poetry and prose, poetry editor for\\xa0The New Yorker\\xa0and director of the New York Public Library\\u2019s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Young has spent the past six years tracing the history of news-worthy fraudulence all the way back to the 18th century. Young\\u2019s latest book\\xa0Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News\\xa0chronicles the racially prejudiced path that brought fake news to where it is to today. Longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award,\\xa0Bunk\\xa0dives into hoaxes big and small that permeate American history and the cultural attitudes that drive them. Young joins\\xa0Carole Bell, an assistant professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University whose research explores the connections between media and politics, for a broad-ranging discussion on the current state and political consequences of fake news. A book signing will follow.\\n\\nSpeakers:\\n\\nKevin Young\\xa0is poetry editor for\\xa0The New Yorker, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library, and the author of 13 books of poetry and prose including\\xa0The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, which was a\\xa0New York Times\\xa0Notable Book, and\\xa0Jelly Roll: A Blues, which was a finalist for the National Book Award.\\n\\nCarole Bell\\xa0is\\xa0an assistant professor of Communication Studies and affiliated faculty in Political Science at Northeastern University. Bell\\u2019s teaching and research focuses on the intersections of media, politics, public opinion and public policy, with a particular focus on issues of social identity. Her first book,\\xa0The Politics of Interracial Romance in American Film,\\xa0is forthcoming from Routledge.\\n\\nThis event is sponsored by\\xa0Radius at MIT. All Communications Forum events are free and open to the general public.'