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