400 Years of Inequality: Breaking the Cycle of Systemic Racism

This day is a part of a national movement by schools of public health to engage in the observance of “400 Years of Inequality,” marking 400 years since a group of 20 Africans were first sold in bondage in Jamestown, Virginia. This Dean’s Symposium aims to use this anniversary to discuss how we can disrupt systemic racism, with forward-looking and solution-driven discussions.

Speaker(s): Cornell William Brooks, Former NAACP President, and Neera Tanden, President, Center for American Progress; and other guests.
When
Friday, Oct 18, 2019 at 8:30am until 2:30pm on Friday, Oct 18, 2019
Where
L Building, 72 East Concord Street (SOM) (Heibert Lounge)
Who
Open to General Public
Admission is free
More Info https://www.bu.edu/sph/news-events/signature-programs/deans-symposia/400-years-of-inequality-breaking-the-cycle-of-systemic-racism/
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