Date & Location
Friday, May 10, 2024 | 9:30 a.m – 4:30 p.m.
The View at the WCCCD Northwest Campus
8200 West Outer Drive, Detroit, MI 48219
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New Visions of Integration and Civil Rights in American Democracy is a two-part summit that continues the series of national summits convened by Wayne County Community College District Chancellor Dr. Curtis L. Ivery and the WCCCD Institute for Social Progress (ISP) focusing on major educational, political, social, and economic issues critical to the vitality of the nation’s historically diverse populations and the founding philosophical ideals of the project of American democracy. This conference will be organized across two parts, and two critical frameworks.
The first will examine legal cases and current racial dynamics of integration in U.S. public education and housing and focus on why racial and economic integration remain crucial projects for the future of American democracy and our nation’s nearing transformation into a multiracial majority society for the first time in its history.
featured Speakers
john a. powell
Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute and Professor African American Studies, Law, and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Sheryll D. Cashin
Author and Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Civil Rights and Social Justice at Georgetown University.
Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law; Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of History, Harvard University.
Bankole Thompson
Nationally Acclaimed Journalist- Op-Ed Columnist at The Detroit News, Founding Dean of The PuLSE Institute
Alex Kotlowitz
Bestselling Author, Journalist, Documentary Filmmaker
Cheryl I. Harris
Vice Dean for Community, Equality, and Justice; Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair
in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at UCLA School of Law
registration
Registration will open at 9:30 a.m. with continental breakfast fare and networking. Panel discussion and speaker sessions will begin at 10:30 a.m. Lunch will be included.
Registration is available at no cost, but is required to attend.
