The evening’s panelists are Hubie Jones, former Director of Roxbury Multi-Service Center; Jean McGuire, Director of METCO, 1973-2016, Zebulon V. Miletsky, PhD, Stony Brook University and author of Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle: Lyda Peters, a key aide to the legendary organizer for equity and desegregation Ruth Batson: Vernita Carter-Weller, daughter of Rev. Vernon Carter, who picketed the Boston School Committee for 114 consecutive days in 1965 to help win passage for the 1965 State Racial Imbalance Law: Charles Glen, who served as coordinator at his church for School Day Out Freedom School held on June 11, 1964; Gloria Lee, who as a 12-year-old, participated in the School Stay Out and attended a Freedom School, and Jim Vrabel, Boston historian and author of A People’s History of the New Boston. The evening’s moderator is former Boston Mayor Kim Janey who was bused as a Boston Public School Student.
Virtual
Hila Shamir, S.J.D., Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and Fellow, Center for Labor & A Just Economy at Harvard Law School and Renee Landers, Professor, Suffolk University Law School.
Suffolk University
NPR's Jack Beatty, Director Myriam Cyr, and Salem State University scholar Christopher Mauiello, PhD
Modern Theatre
Jeneé Osterheldt, Candace McDuffie, Ashley-Rose, and Oompa
Virtual
Author and science Journalist Laura Spinney and moderator, Udodiri R. Okwandu, Presidential Scholar, Harvard University.
Virtual
Barbara Abrams, PhD., Suffolk University, Mira Morgenstern, PhD, The City College of New York, and Karen Sullivan, PhD, Queens College/CUNY discuss their latest book, Reframing Rousseau’s Lévite d’Ephraïm: The Hebrew Bible, hospitality, and modern identity. The afternoon’s moderator is Jennifer Vanderheyden, PhD., Marquette University.
Virtual
Jonas Kaiser is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Assistant Professor at Suffolk University. William Schaffner, MD Professor of Preventive Medicine, Department of Health Policy and Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Arsenal Center for the Arts
U.S. Senator Edward Markey and Congressman Joe Kennedy III
Arsenal Center for the Arts
With Andrew Bacevich, PhD, president, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. The afternoon’s moderator is Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch, PhD, assistant professor, Political Science & Legal Studies Department, Suffolk University.
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Mahrukh Doctor, Vivien Schmidt, and Sebastián Royo
Arsenal Center for the Arts
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