#BlackLivesMatter Across the Americas: Black Youth Organizers and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Date: 

Thursday, October 29, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:30pm


This event is virtual, to register click here.

Speakers: Ana Belique, Movimento Reconocido (Santo Domingo); Daniela Rincón, Casa Cultural El Chontaduro (Cali); Marcelle Decothé, Instituto Marielle Franco/Favelas Na Luta/Fórum da Juventude do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro); Mirtes Souza (mãe de Miguel Otávio) e Priscila Santana, Kilomba Collective (Brazil/USA); Trina Reynolds-Tyler, Data 4 Black Lives/BYP100/Invisible Institute (Chicago)
Moderated by: Yanilda María González, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Join the second event in the What Justice Looks Like series for a conversation with activists from Black youth-led movements from the US and Latin America, leading the struggle against racial injustice, from police violence to structural racism and disparate effects of the COVID pandemic on racialized and low-income communities.

This event is sponsored by Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Center for Public Leadership, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, and the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at the Weiner Center for Social Policy, and produced in collaboration with the Kilomba Collective.