M, 2022
18jul5:05 pm5:05 pmSummer of IDEAS | *Replay* of Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
Event Details
Discussion | The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) invites you to engage in an important discussion about structural racism and its impacts--both past and present. On June 30, 2022, NLIHC hosted
Event Details
Discussion |
The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) invites you to engage in an important discussion about structural racism and its impacts–both past and present.
On June 30, 2022, NLIHC hosted a live fireside chat between Jeffery Robinson, Executive Director of The Who We Are Project and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Co-host of Some of My Best Friends Are, and author of The Condemnation of Blackness.
This event is part of the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s Summer of IDEAS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Anti-racism, and Systems-thinking) educational series. The replay is free, but registration is required.
How to Register |
- Grab Your Ticket to View the Fireside Chat, recorded on June 30, 2022, between Jeffery Robinson and Khalil Gibran Muhammad. Registered participants will receive a link to the recording in their inboxes. (ASL services provided)
About the Film |
Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, criminal defense and civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America.
Former ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jeffery Robinson had one of the best educations in America. He went to Marquette University and Harvard Law School and has been a trial lawyer for over 40 years. In 2011, Robinson began raising his then 13-year-old nephew and, as a Black man raising a Black son, struggled with what to tell his son about racism in America. Robinson was 11 years old when the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in Robinson’s hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. He marched with his father and brother in one of the Memphis Sanitation Worker strikes. Robinson also attended a court hearing for some of those arrested for marching and that experience, at 11 years old, is why he ultimately became a criminal defense lawyer. Before King’s murder, Robinson believed the country had reached a “tipping point,” and true racial equality was within reach. When King was killed, it felt to Robinson like the movement died with him. How, he wondered, did we get here?
In Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, Robinson shows us how legalized discrimination and state-sanctioned brutality, murder, dispossession, and disenfranchisement continued long after slavery ended, profoundly impeding Black Americans’ ability to create and accumulate wealth as well as to gain access to jobs, housing, education, and health care. Weaving heartbreak, humor, passion, and rage, Robinson’s words lay bare an all-but-forgotten past, as well as our shared responsibility to create a better country in our lifetimes.
More about The Who We Are Project: here
Host |
The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) is dedicated to achieving racially and socially equitable public policy that ensures people with the lowest incomes have quality homes that are accessible and affordable in communities of their choice.
Time
july 18(monday) 5:05pm - july 18(monday) 5:05pm
