The 14th Annual Dean’s Diversity Forum Faith in the Future: America’s Ongoing Quest to Build a Diverse Democracy.
Keynote Speaker: Vincent Rougeau
Vincent Rougeau is the dean of Boston College Law School, the inaugural director of the new Boston College Forum on Racial Justice in America, and the 2021 president of the American Association of Law Schools. Dean Rougeau has just been named the first lay president of the College of the Holy Cross.
Panelists
Iva Ferrell, Associate Professor of Legal Methods at Delaware Law School
The Honorable Royce L. Morris, Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas
Joseph Robinson, Executive Director at the MLK Leadership Development Institute
Books referenced during the presentation include:
Caste – Isabel Wilkerson My Grandmother’s Hands – Resmaa Menakem How to be Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 – Ibram X. Kendi The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander Dr. King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man – Emmanuel Acho
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Music Credit: LeChuckz