Program Description
Event Details
Join us in a conversation on why national reparations are owed to Black Americans and a detailed plan on how the federal government can repay the monetary debt with economist Dr. William Darity Jr. and folklorist A. Kirsten Mullen, co-authors of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. This program is co-hosted with community group Walk the Walk.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Dr. William Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University.
A. Kirsten Mullen is a writer, folklorist, museum consultant, and lecturer whose work focuses on race, art, history, and politics.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In From Here to Equality, Darity and Mullen look to both the past and the present to measure the inequalities borne of slavery. Using innovative methods that link monetary values to historical wrongs, they next assess the literal and figurative costs of justice denied in the 155 years since the end of the Civil War. Finally, Darity and Mullen offer a detailed roadmap for an effective reparations program, including a substantial payment to each documented U.S. black descendant of slavery.
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Virtual Program
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