Ta-Nehisi Coates

Hear what former prisoner Shaka Senghor, who was incarcerated for 19 years and now directs strategy for the bipartisan initiative #cut50, has to say about President Barack Obama's recent pledge to end solitary confinement for juveniles and low-level offenders.

Landrieu and Coates are both eager to address this issue, but they each had very different ideas about the nature of the problem and how it could be resolved.

Has America's racial destiny been fulfilled with the election of the nation's first black president?