“The world as it is is not the world as it should be,” said scholar and author Eddie S. Glaude Jr. who, as the Harris School of Public Policy celebrated the start of Black History Month, looked both backward and forward to gauge where things stand now for social and racial justice movements.
Glaude, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, entwined history, policy, and politics for the sweeping view he provided during “Action NOW: Social Movements in the Floyd and COVID Era,” on February 2. It was the first in a series of Harris Black History Month events.
Moderated by Alaina Beverly, assistant vice president for urban affairs at the UChicago Office of Civic Engagement, the hour-long program included brisk discussion as well as a question-and-answer exchange with virtual attendees.
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