Northeastern is hosting a joint Civil Rights and Restorative Justice / Africana Studies event with special guests Ta-Nehisi coates and Angela Davis speaking on Nov 17 2020!
Writer and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates and social justice icon Angela Davis will join a panel of civil rights leaders, scholars, and lawyers for a conference at Northeastern University on reparations for the descendants of lynching victims.
Hosted by the university’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and the Africana Studies Program, the virtual conference on Tuesday will bring together families of descendants with longstanding leaders of reparations movements in the United States, as well as racial justice activists and scholars.