Black Lives Matter and the Case for Reparations: Past, Present, and Future
Featuring Dr. Yohuru Williams
Distinguished University Chair and Professor of History and Founding Director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas

For more than a year, Trahern Crews, of Black Lives Matter St. Paul and the national Green Party, and St. Paul City Councilperson Jane Prince have led this reading group and led the St. Paul City Council in January to pass—unanimously—a resolution “Committing to Racial Healing Through the Exploration of Reparations for American Descendants of Chattel Slavery Living in St. Paul.” On Tuesday evening, April 13, they will be joined by Dr. Yohuru Williams, who will make a presentation linking the past, the present, and the future.

Yohuru Williams is an internationally recognized scholar in the history of the struggle for justice in the U.S. He received his Ph.D. from Howard University in 1998 and has authored Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights Black Power and Black Panthers in New Haven (Blackwell, 2006); Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement (Routledge, 2015); Teaching beyond the Textbook: Six Investigative Strategies (Corwin Press, 2008); and he has edited A Constant Struggle: African-American History from 1865 to the Present Documents and Essays (Kendall Hunt, 2002), and is co-editor of The Black Panthers: Portraits of an Unfinished Revolution (Nation Books, 2016), In Search of the Black Panther Party, New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement (Duke, 2006), and Liberated Territory: Toward a Local History of the Black Panther Party (Duke, 2008).

Dr. Williams has appeared on a variety of local and national radio and television programs, most notably ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Aljazeera America, BET, CSPAN, EBRU Today, Fox Business News, Fresh Outlook, Huff Post Live, and NPR. He was featured in the Ken Burns PBS Documentary “Jackie Robinson” and the Stanley Nelson PBS Documentary “The Black Panthers.” Dr. Williams also blogs regularly for the Huffington Post and is a contributor to the Progressive Magazine. Dr. Williams’ scholarly articles have appeared in the American Bar Association’s Insights on Law and Society, The Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, The Black Scholar, The Journal of Black Studies, Pennsylvania History, Delaware History, the Journal of Civil and Human Rights and the Black History.

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