Aron Goldman discusses how to understand and overcome structural racism. Police violence, mass incarceration, voter suppression, health disparities, the school achievement gap, redlining and the racial wealth gap, environmental injustice, and more sometimes make it seem like the civil rights movement never happened.
While many of the obvious signs of racism – "whites only" signs, cross burnings, and officially segregated public spaces – have become less common, in 2024 race is still a predictor of success, even survival. The modern forms of racism are not less significant, but they are harder to see. They manifest in our policies, systems, and even our everyday physical environment that we may take for granted.
You are invited to participate in a conversation to reinterpret those policies, systems, and physical features of our very own communities, to understand the profoundly disparate impacts, and to consider ways to make meaningful and structural changes.
Registration is required to attend this IN PERSON event.
Sponsored by the Rev. Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Heritage Foundation