Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice

June 10th, 2021
2020, A Year in Review
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June 2nd, 2021
After Life: Commutation, Redemption, and making an impact after incarceration
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May 26th, 2021
Serving Life: Juvenile Lifers and the Struggle for Freedom and Redemption
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May 19th, 2021
Legal Advocacy from Inside
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April 20th, 2021
Black Monument Builders
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April 13th, 2021
Design Practices and Memorializing Difficult Histories
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April 8th, 2021
Memorializing Black Death
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April 6th, 2021
Black Politics and US Democracy, Beyond Mourning and Sacrifice
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March 29th, 2021
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
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February 23rd, 2021
Reimagining Memorials and Commemoration
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February 11th, 2021
CRMI, A Bridge to Understanding our Present
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January 26th, 2021
Roundtable on Education in Rhode Island during COVID-19
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January 22nd, 2021
Post-Election Conversation
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November 16th, 2020
The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence
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October 28th, 2020
2020 Debra Lee Lecture: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty First Century 
featuring Dr. William A. Darity and Kirsten Mullen
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October 20th, 2020
Voter Suppression
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September 29th, 2020
Defunding the Police: Organizing Against the Carceral State in Providence
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September 17th, 2020
Race, Injustice, and Health Disparities: Barriers to Equity and Citizenship
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July 16th, 2020
Challenges to Global Anti-Black Racism: A Conversation
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June 29th, 2020
Breaking the Thin Blue Line of Bigotry: How Outcries for Police Reform have led to Calls for Abolition 
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June 11th, 2020 
Black Lives: Structural Violence, Protest and Change
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Funded in part through support from Brown University's Addressing Systemic Racism Seed Fund.