Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice

This Is America

Embedded within the American social, political, and economic systems are various forms of structural violences. The Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice's series This Is America explores how these structures and systems are rooted in anti-Black racism.

Embedded within the American social, political, and economic systems are various forms of structural violences. The Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice's series This Is America explores how these structures and systems are rooted in anti-Black racism. 

Funded in part through support from Brown University's Addressing Systemic Racism Seed Fund.

June 2nd, 2021

After Life: Commutation, Redemption, and making an impact after incarceration

May 26th, 2021

Serving Life: Juvenile Lifers and the Struggle for Freedom and Redemption

May 19th, 2021

Legal Advocacy from Inside

April 20th, 2021

Black Monument Builders

April 13th, 2021

Design Practices and Memorializing Difficult Histories

April 8th, 2021

Memorializing Black Death

April 6th, 2021

Black Politics and US Democracy, Beyond Mourning and Sacrifice

March 29th, 2021

Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

February 23rd, 2021

Reimagining Memorials and Commemoration

February 11th, 2021

CRMI, A Bridge to Understanding our Present

January 26th, 2021

Roundtable on Education in Rhode Island during COVID-19

January 22nd, 2021

Post-Election Conversation

November 16th, 2020

The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence

October 28th, 2020

2020 Debra Lee Lecture: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty First Century 

featuring Dr. William A. Darity and Kirsten Mullen

October 20th, 2020

Voter Suppression

September 29th, 2020

Defunding the Police: Organizing Against the Carceral State in Providence

September 17th, 2020

Race, Injustice, and Health Disparities: Barriers to Equity and Citizenship

July 16th, 2020

Challenges to Global Anti-Black Racism: A Conversation

June 29th, 2020

Breaking the Thin Blue Line of Bigotry: How Outcries for Police Reform have led to Calls for Abolition 

June 11th, 2020

Black Lives: Structural Violence, Protest and Change