Adjoa Aiyetoro, J.D., assistant professor of law at the William H. Bowen School of Law, will present a lecture, “The Whys and Wherefores of Reparations for African Descendants” from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14, at the Dickinson Hall Auditorium.
The event is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and Liberal Studies and its student organization, the Socratic Society. Admission is free.
Aiyetoro, who joined the UALR Law School in 2004, has worked as a human rights attorney and as a staff attorney in the special litigation section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division where she developed an expertise in prisoner rights. She has also worked at ACLU National Prison Project and held executive positions with the National Conference of Black Lawyers and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. She has also served as a consultant for the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA), represented the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom at the World Conference Against Racism, coordinated the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law’s delegation to the United Nations’ Conference on Women in Beijing, and represented the organization at the 2000 Beijing Plus 5.
Professor Aiyetoro’s publications include The Unkept Promise of the 13th Amendment: A Call for Reparations, Women and The U.S. Constitution: History, Interpretation and Practice.