400 Years of Inequality: Breaking the Cycle of Systemic Racism
- Starts: 8:30 am on Friday, October 18, 2019
- Ends: 2:30 pm on Friday, October 18, 2019
This day is a part of a national movement by schools of public health to engage in the observance of “400 Years of Inequality,” marking 400 years since a group of 20 Africans were first sold in bondage in Jamestown, Virginia. This Dean’s Symposium aims to use this anniversary to discuss how we can disrupt systemic racism, with forward-looking and solution-driven discussions.
- Speaker(s)
- Cornell William Brooks, Former NAACP President, and Neera Tanden, President, Center for American Progress; and other guests.
- Event Open To
- public
- Building
- L Building, 72 East Concord Street (SOM)
- Room
- Heibert Lounge
- Show Fees
- free
- Link:
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- Contact Organization
- School of Public Health
- Contact Name
- SPH Events
- Registration URL
- https://www.bu.edu/sph/news-events/signature-programs/deans-symposia/400-years-of-inequality-breaking-the-cycle-of-systemic-racism/
- Contact Email
- sphevent@bu.edu
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