Social Justice Reading Rooms

The Reading Room series on social justice is a collaborative effort presented by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and The Howard University Social Justice Consortium. Sponsored by Mellon Just Futures.

Thank you everyone who joined ASALH for our second installment of our virtual Reading Room series on social justice, “How Far Have We Come?”, a collaborative effort presented by ASALH & the Howard University Social Justice Consortium. You heard from authors of Healing Our Divided Society and The Essential Kerner Commission Report, Alan Curtis and Jelani Cobb, along with Michael P. Jeffries of Wellesley College. Moderated by Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, former president of ASALH. Whether you attended the first time, or haven’t yet had a chance to enjoy this riveting discussion, take a look and subscribe to YouTube via ASALH TV!

The Reading Room series on social justice is a collaborative effort presented by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and The Howard University Social Justice Consortium. Sponsored by Mellon Just Futures.

Many of you joined us for the first discussion in our latest series in partnership with the Howard University Social Justice Consortium, following the success of our Workshop Wednesdays program. Social Justice Reading Room is another collaborative (and virtual, via Zoom Webinar) effort offering complimentary insight from some of the more esteemed academics in their field. In our first Reading Room experience, esteemed historian Orville Vernon Burton and civil rights attorney Armand Derfner, the authors of Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court, joined to discuss their latest book and the history of racially biased legislation in this country. Justice Deferred (Harvard University Press) explores the treatment of race in the three century history of the United States Supreme Court. Moderated by our very own Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, past president of ASALH. Whether you attended the first time, or haven’t yet had a chance to enjoy this riveting discussion, take a look and subscribe to YouTube via ASALH TV!