The Joel E. Anderson Institute on Race and Ethnicity’s speaker series fosters sustained awareness of issues of race and ethnicity in the state of Arkansas and beyond by bringing in leading experts to discuss and provide context for today’s challenges.
Over 200 hundred people attended the Anderson Institute’s fall speaker series which included partnerships with Little Rock Central High National Historic Site, the National Park Service, UALR Bowen School of Law, and the Historic Arkansas Museum.
The speakers covered a variety of pertinent topics including voting rights, mass incarceration and public education.
Gloria Brown-Marshall, professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, began the series with a talk on “Voting Rights and Voter Suppression,” based on her recently released book The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Struggle for Justice.
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alist and Arkansas native Douglas A. Blackmon discussed convict lease labor in the south, the subject of his Pulitzer Prize winning book Slavery by Another Name. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Writer, producer, and director Curtis Chin, who has written for shows on ABC, NBC and Fox, screened and discussed his documentary Tested, which follows a dozen racially and socioeconomically diverse 8th graders as they fight for a seat at one of New York City’s specialized high schools.
