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This annual event honoring Dr. Martin Luther King will feature Gabriela Taveras, MBA ’22, MLK Fellow and member of the Graduate Students of Color Collective; a keynote address by Kristen Clarke, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice; a conversation between Régine Jean-Charles, Director of Africana Studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and author of Martin Luther King and The Trumpet of Conscience Today, and Margaret Burnham, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project; a video featuring Rev. Willie Bodrick II, Law ’20, Senior Pastor at Boston’s Twelfth Baptist Church; a musical performance by Kwesi Abakah, Engineering ’16; and remarks by President Joseph E. Aoun.

Join CSSH faculty members as they share current research with colleagues, field questions, and foster discussion. This week's presenter is Doreen Lee,

Associate Professor of Anthropology.

The Institute on Race and Justice and its Community Advisory Board present the second annual "Race and Community Dialogue Series." This series consists of three panel discussions exploring important topics on race and communities of color amid the pandemic and considerations post COVID-19.

Northeastern alumni and faculty will come together to discuss misconceptions of Deafness and disability in society as well as efforts to address these misconceptions, unpacking concepts of ableism and audism from an intersectional lens. Speakers include Lori Whynot, Director of the American Sign Language and Interpreting Program; Sari Altschuler, Associate Professor of English; Tracy Robinson-Wood, Professor of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology; Joseph Murray (BA, Political Science '95), Professor of American Sign Language and Deaf Studies, Gallaudet University and President of the World Federation of the Deaf; and Opeoluwa Sotonwa (DLP '18), Commissioner, Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

This year's Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week begins with speaker Jeffrey Veidlinger from the University of Michigan.

Sangay Mishra, Drew University, will speak at the fifth session of Asia America and the World. He specializes in immigrant political incorporation, transnationalism, diaspora, and racial and ethnic politics. His work engages with political participation of South Asian immigrants in the United States as well as countries of origin with a particular focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

A prolific author, committed teacher, brilliant intellectual, and bold visionary, bell hooks left an indelible mark on generations of people including activists, artists, and scholars. This one-day symposium hosted by the Africana Studies Department will consist of three panels offering formal and informal reflections about hooks' profound and wide-ranging impact and will be led by Régine Jean-Charles, Director of Africana Studies and Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice.

Mary Gryctko, Visiting Scholar, will present a talk on her work-in-progress followed by a Q&A. She will focus on young sex workers in Victorian England and the ways in which reformers who framed them as "children" worked to take away their agency, and to frame all sex work as non-consensual "trafficking."