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This is America: Post Elections Conversation

January 22, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Free

This is America: A series of conversations about racial slavery, its legacies, and anti-Black racism

This is America: Post Elections Conversation
Registration link will be available soon.

Embedded within the American social, political, and economic systems are various forms of structural violences. The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice’s series This Is America explores how these structures and systems are rooted in anti-Black racism.

This panel follows an October 2020 conversation that explored the historical roots of voter suppression and its impact on the November presidential election [click here to watch the recording].  Join us on January 22nd for a follow-up conversation following recent elections.  This event is co-sponsored with the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.

Panelists include:

  • Nsé Ufot Chief Executive Officer of the New Georgia Project (NGP) and its affiliate, New Georgia Project Action Fund (NGP AF).
  • Marcia Johnson-Blanco Co-director of the Lawyers’ Committee’s Voting Rights Project
  • Prof. Sonia R. Jarvis, Distinguished Lecturer Marxe School of Public & International Affairs, Baruch College, CUNY
  • Moderator, Geri Augusto, Gerard Visiting Associate Professor of International & Public Affairs and Africana Studies, Director of Development Studies, Brown University
    SNCC Legacy Project Board Member

Details

Date:
January 22, 2021
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:

Venue

Virtual Event

Organizer

Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice
Phone
401-863-5099
Email
slaveryjustice@brown.edu