Reparations: Story, History, and Democracy - Now

Join the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice and the Institute of Politics for a discussion on the legacy of Callie House and the long legacy of reparatory justice movements for Black Americans. Panelists include A. Kirsten Mullen, co-author of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black American's in the Twenty-First Century; Dr. Mary Francis Berry, author of My Face is Black is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations; and Dreisen Heath, reparations researcher and advocate. Professor Cornell William Brooks will moderate.

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