Julia Sweig and Ellen Fitzpatrick
John F. Kennedy Library
David Walker is an award-winning comic writer of The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History. He is also a celebrated scholar of African-American cinema and scribe for numerous titles for Marvel, DC Comics, Dynamite, and Dark Horse, including Luke Cage, Occupy Avengers, Cyborg, and Shaft. Justin Eisinger is the co-author of the New York Times best selling graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy, George Takei’s story of childhood internment during World War II. He is also the Editorial Director of Graphic Novels & Collections at IDW Publishing. Brian Hawkins is the co-author of Black Cotton, a comic set in an alternate reality where white people are an oppressed minority in America and a black police officer connected to a powerful family kills a white woman. This story makes clear allusions to the murder of George Floyd and others by police in American, grappling with an incredibly current history in a creative way.
Virtual
Karen Tumulty and Eileen McNamara
John F. Kennedy Library
Gary Sandling, Vice President of Visitor Programs and Services at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Nathaniel Sheidley, CEO of Revolutionary Spaces Kyera Singleton, Executive Director of the Royall House & Slave Quarters Karin Wulf, Professor of History at William & Mary and Director of the Omohundro Institute Moderated by Cristela Guerra, arts and culture reporter for WBUR’s The ARTery
Virtual
Paola Ramos is a host and correspondent for VICE and VICE News, as well as a contributor to Telemundo News and MSNBC. Ramos was the deputy director of Hispanic media for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and a political appointee during the Barack Obama administration, and she also served in President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. She’s a former fellow at Emerson Collective. Ramos received her MA in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn. Visit her website, paolaramos.com, to learn more, and follow her on Instagram and Twitter @paoramos.
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Virtual
Lauret Savoy
Virtual
Siddhartha V. Shah, PEM Director of Education and Civic Engagement, and Dr. Walter Harper, professor of anthropology at Bridgewater State University
Virtual
Panelists: Monica Cannon-Grant, the CEO and founder of Violence In Boston Inc., a nonprofit working to improve the quality of life and life outcomes of individuals from disenfranchised communities by reducing the prevalence of violence and the impact of associated trauma. Kai Grant, the founder of Black Market along with her husband Christopher, creating Nubian Square’s first flexible cultural event spaces with a signature artisan marketplace. She now manages Black Market’s programming, which focuses on reigniting Roxbury’s creative economy. Moderator: Malia Lazu, founder of the Lazu Group, is an award winning, tenured strategist in diversity & inclusion who sparked deep economic development and investment in urban entrepreneurship. She sits on the boards of Revolutionary Spaces.
Old South Meeting House
Judge Nancy Gertner (ret.) and Chief Justice Margaret Marshall
John F. Kennedy Library
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