America’s Pursuit of Racial Justice

Date: 

Friday, May 14, 2021, 3:00pm to 4:30pm

On Friday, May 14, 2021 from 3:00pm-4:30pm (Eastern), UC Berkeley's Social Science Matrix will feature a "Matrix on Point" panel discussion entitled, "America’s Pursuit of Racial Justice." The panel will include AAAS Professor Brandon Terry, as well as Monica Bell (Yale), and Leigh Raiford (UC Berkeley), and will new moderated by Christopher Muller (UC Berkeley).  This panel of scholars with diverse disciplinary backgrounds will discuss the critical momentum of Black-led protests and the Black Lives Matter movement during the past year, and situate this within the larger historical context of social movements for racial justice in the United States and the unfinished work of the Civil Rights Movement.  This event is free and open to the public with advance registration.