America’s Racial Reckoning: Black Lives and Black Futures in Historical, Political and Legal Context

America is in the midst of reckoning with the legacies of racism, racial violence, and systemic injustice against black people. The current national uprising, sparked by the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, have exposed the complex intersections of history, politics, and the law in how race, white supremacy, and anti-blackness function in American society.

Moderated by Chad Williams, the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Chair in History and the Chair of the African and African American Studies department at Brandeis University. This panel will bring together University Professor Anita Hill, Daniel Kryder, the Louis Stulberg Chair in Law and Politics, and Leah Wright Rigueur, the Harry Truman Associate Professor of History, for an in-depth discussion from multiple scholarly perspectives of this moment, its historical precedents, and possible outcomes.

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This absolutely fantastic. Thank you to all the panelists!