You're invited to From Acknowledgment to Action: DSLUE Reparative Justice Summit!
Join us in person at the Phyllis Wheatley Heritage Center for a day groundbreaking and dynamic day of learning, discussion, and action.** PLEASE RSVP (GET TICKETS)- FREE-INVITATION NOT TRANSFERABLE **
From Acknowledgment to Action: DSLUE Reparative Justice Summit is a national working convening that will bring together over 150 descendants, academic scholars, reparations practitioners, students, and community leaders to examine barriers to implementing descendant-led reparative actions at colleges and universities with ties to slavery, and to participate in activities that will culminate in a report and recommendations.
Co-hosted by Robin A. Proudie, Founder and Executive Director of the Descendants of the St. Louis University Enslaved (DSLUE), and Areva Martin, Esq., award-winning civil rights attorney and legal commentator, the summit will feature keynote speaker Professor Adjoa Aiyetoro, a nationally recognized civil rights attorney and scholar.
Among the featured panelists/speakers is Professor Justin Hansford, Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard Law and leading voice in global reparations advocacy. Also speaking are Dr. Julianne Malveaux, noted economist and author; Robin Rue Simmons, founder of FirstRepair; Professor Cornell William Brooks of Harvard; Dr. Christopher Tinson, Chair of African American Studies at Saint Louis University; and authors and historians Professor Stefan M. Bradley (Amherst College) and Professor Davarian Baldwin (Trinity College); Dr. Linda J. Mann, Fulbright Scholar and co-founder of the African American Redress Network; Civil rights lawyer, Professor Eric Miller (Loyola Marymount)r; Ebonee Davis Director of Reparations at Virginia Theological Seminary; Kamm Howard, reparations scholar and founder of Reparations United; Nkechi Taifa, Esq., author and founder of Reparations Eduction Project; Historians Fr Jeffrey Harrison (Slavery, History, Memory, and Reconciliation Profect (SHMR), Ayan Ali (SHMR & STL History Museum), and Cicely Hunter (SHMR &STL History Museum), Robert L. Reece, sociologist of race and inequality at the University of Texas at Austin; and Shawn Rochester, author of The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America. And many more participating in the breakout session!!
LETS MOVE FROM TALKING ABOUT IT TO ACTION- LETS HELP THE ACADEMY PUSH PAST THE BARRIERS TO TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE!!
