Tag Archives: BC Forum on Racial Justice in America
Reuben Jonathan Miller on mass incarceration
Reuben Jonathan Miller, an associate professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and a research professor at the American Bar Foundation, will present “Mass Incarceration, Voting Rights, and Citizenship” at Boston College … Continue reading
Joy Harjo: Indigenous Poetry and Native Literature
Award-winning poet, musician, and performer Joy Harjo will present “Indigenous Poetry and Native Literature” at Boston College on February 21 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. A member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Harjo was the first Native … Continue reading
‘His Name Is George Floyd’
Robert Samuels, co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Viking/Penguin Random House, 2022), will deliver the first Lowell Humanities Series lecture of the semester on September 13 … Continue reading
The cost of racism
Economic and social policy expert Heather McGhee, author of the best-selling book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, will present a Lowell Humanities Series Lecture on October 26 at 7 p.m. in … Continue reading
Why Structural Racism Persists
Legal scholar Natsu Taylor Saito will talk about her book Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law: Why Structural Racism Persists on October 6 at 7 p.m. in Gasson, room 100. Saito is Regents’ Professor Emerita at Georgia State University’s College … Continue reading
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