Philosophy guest speaker, Professor Derrick Darby (Rutgers), will present an in-person lecture entiteld:  A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite to Fight.  After discussing the motivations for his new book, the inspiration found in the black radical political tradition, and after summarizing the main argument, Professor Derrick Darby will explain why he's doubtful about the prospect of securing black reparations – as currently imagined – in the United States, and why such doubt is not as troubling as one might think.  The lecture will be held in Emerson Hall in room #305. 

Dr. Derrick Darby is a Henry Rutgers professor of philosophy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is the founding director of the Rutgers Social Justice Solutions Research Collaboratory and also directs its renowned Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy founded by Howard McGary, Jr.