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Date(s) - Wed, April 19, 2023
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
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The Justice Center of Rensselaer County will present a free lecture at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall by a distinguished historian of racial justice movements.
Peniel E. Joseph, Ph.D., is the author of The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century (2022). The book examines the racial reckoning that unfolded in 2020 in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.
Joseph argues that Black Lives Matter marks a “Third Reconstruction” in the ongoing struggle by Black Americans that is as momentous as the movements that arose after the Civil War and during the Civil Rights era of the 1960s.
The Washington Post called Joseph’s work “searingly relevant.”
The talk, titled “America’s Third Reconstruction: Building the 21st Century Beloved Community,” will be 7 p.m. Wed., April 19 at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
Admission is free, eventbrite registration requested.
Serving as moderator will be Jennifer Burns, Ph.D, historian and lecturer in the University at Albany’s Africana Studies Department.
This is the Justice Center of Rensselaer County’s inaugural installment of The Robert J. Doherty Memorial Lecture Series. Additional support is provided by the New York State Writers Institute, the Center for Law and Justice and the Stephen J. McKee Foundation.
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