BU Professor Margo to give public lecture in November: “Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality”
Professor Robert Margo will give a public lecture November 13 entitled “Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality” as part of a series sponsored by the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University. The series, entitled “Economic Racism in Perspective: Past and Present in the US and Germany,” includes three public lectures and a conference bringing together 25 scholars from around the world.
Margo’s lecture is at 7 pm, November 13, at the Florence and Chafetz Hillel House at Boston University, 213 Bay State Road. The lecture is free and open to the public.