2020 Summit for Civil RightsÂ
The Journal of Law & Inequality (JLI) will co-host the virtual 2020 Summit for Civil Rights with the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity and Georgetown Law's Workers' Rights Institute on July 30 and 31, 2020. The prominent list of speakers include Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, University of Minnesota Law School’s Professor Myron Orfield, Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, Professors Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Sheryll Cashin, Theodore M. Shaw, john a. powell, John C. Brittain, and Eric Foner, Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, leaders at NAACP, AFL-CIO, Spencer Foundation, Ford Foundation and The Century Foundation, numerous other elected officials, union leaders, activists and community organizers.
The Summit will start at 1:00 PM on Thursday, July 30 and end at 4:00 PM, Friday, July 31. It will be broken down into four distinct but interrelated discussions over the course of the two days (see topics below). While much attention is rightly directed to immediate demands for sweeping police reform and abolition, the Summit will attempt to examine some of the deeper, historical structures of racial apartheid in American’s institutions and their meaning, especially at this juncture, for working people of all backgrounds and the implications for political action, multi-racial power, and a meaningful and transformative policy agenda. JLI will publish papers from the Summit as part of Issue 1 of Volume 39.
Panel Topics Include:Â
- The State of Multi-Racial America and Black Power
- The Two America's – The State of American ApartheidÂ
- Who's Profiting?Â
- What is to be Done? How Can We Help?
View the full list of speakers here.
While the Summit will be an interactive video conference this year, it will have limited capacity, so please register today.