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August 28 with Lee Hawkins and Blair Imani

28 Aug 2020

 / 7:00pm
 / Free
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Join award-winning Wall Street Journal writer Lee Hawkins and acclaimed historian and activist Blair Imani for a free online discussion about civil rights in America – focused on the momentous date of August 28.
 
August 28 is one of those dates that resonates throughout black history – events that have taken place on this day include:
 
  • 1833: Slavery was abolished in the UK
  • 1955: Emmet Till was brutally murdered by two white men
  • 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic I Have A Dream Speech
  • 1975: Tuskegee Syphilis Study Lawsuit concluded a $9m settlement for the victims
  • 2005: Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans
  • 2008: Barack Obama accepted the democratic nomination for president
  • 2016: 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneels during the national anthem

In conversation with Second Home and Edward Roussel both will explore, in different ways, the impact of these events on the black civil rights movement and how the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have spurred activism across America, and many other parts of the world.

Speakers

 

Lee Hawkins

Award-winning WSJ journalist Lee Hawkins is currently writing about the significant social changes underway in America.

Lee is also the author of the forthcoming book Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free (HarperCollins, 2021). A genealogical investigation of lethal racial violence visited on one family over successive generations and the intergenerational trauma suffered by the survivors.

 

Blair Imani

Critically acclaimed historian, outspoken advocate and activist Blair Imani has built a strong online platform about injustices in Black, Queer, and Muslim communities.

Blair’s recent book published earlier this year Making Our Way Home is a powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture, from Reconstruction to the rise of hip-hop. Blair explores issues like voting rights, domestic terrorism, discrimination, and segregation alongside the flourishing of arts and culture, activism, and civil rights.

 

This event is part of a new series presented by Second Home and Berggruen Institute – public events that bring together the most inspiring and celebrated figures of our time to exchange and discuss groundbreaking cultural, social and political ideas.

 

Event Details

This is a virtual event hosted online via Zoom

Timings – 7pm (BST) | 11am (PDT)

Register for free to receive the Zoom link the day before the event

 

This event has now passed. You can watch it back on our youtube channel here, or listen to the talk on our Creative Collisions podcast on Spotify and iTunes.

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