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SUMMARY:From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation\, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History\, will host a lecture in which the authors advance a general definition of reparations as a program of acknowledgment\, redress\, and closure. This program is free to the public\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Book\nRacism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for Black Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments\, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. Perhaps no moment was more opportune than the early days of Reconstruction (1865-1877) when the U.S. government temporarily implemented a major redistribution of land from former slaveholders to the newly emancipated enslaved. But neither Reconstruction\, nor the New Deal\, nor the Civil Rights Movement led to an economically just and fair nation. Today\, systematic inequality persists in the form of housing discrimination\, unequal education\, police brutality\, mass incarceration\, employment discrimination\, and massive wealth and opportunity gaps. Economic data indicates that for every dollar the average White household holds in wealth the average Black household possesses a mere ten cents. \nIn From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century (University of North Carolina Press\, 2020)\, William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen confront these injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery. After opening the book with a stark assessment of the intergenerational effects of white supremacy on Black economic well-being\, Darity and Mullen look to both the past and the present to measure the inequalities borne of slavery. Using innovative methods that link monetary values to historical wrongs\, they next assess the literal and figurative costs of justice denied in the 155 years since the end of the Civil War. Finally\, Darity and Mullen offer a detailed roadmap for an effective reparations program\, including a substantial payment to each documented U.S. Black descendant of slavery. Taken individually\, any one of the three eras of injustice outlined by Darity and Mullen–slavery\, Jim Crow\, and modern-day discrimination–makes a powerful case for Black reparations. Taken collectively\, they are impossible to ignore. \nFrom Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century is the recipient of the 2021 Lillian Smith Book Prize\, the 2021 Inaugural Book Prize from the Association of African American Life and History\, the 2020 Ragan Old North State Award for Non-fiction from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association\, and the 2021 Best Book Awards (Social Change Category)\, American Book Fest. \nAbout the Authors\nA. Kirsten Mullen is a folklorist and the founder of Artefactual\, an arts-consulting practice\, and Carolina Circuit Writers\, a literary consortium that brings expressive writers of color to the Carolinas. She was a member of the Freelon Adjaye Bond concept development team that was awarded the Smithsonian Institution’s commission to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Under the auspices of the North Carolina Arts Council\, she worked to expand the Coastal Folklife Survey. As a faculty member with the Community Folklife Documentation Institute\, she trained students to research and record the state’s Black music heritage. Kirsten was a consultant on the North Carolina Museum of History’s “North Carolina Legends” and “Civil Rights” exhibition projects. Her writing in museum catalogs\, journals\, and in commercial media includes “Black Culture and History Matter” (The American Prospect)\, which examines the politics of funding Black cultural institutions. She and William A. Darity\, Jr. are the authors of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-first Century. \nWilliam A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy\, African and African American Studies\, Economics and Business\, and the founding director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. He has served as chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and was the founding director of the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke. Darity’s research focuses on inequality by race\, class and ethnicity\, stratification economics\, schooling and the racial achievement gap\, North-South theories of trade and development\, skin shade and labor market outcomes\, the economics of reparations\, the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution\, the history of economics\, and the social psychological effects of exposure to unemployment. His most recent book\, coauthored with A. Kirsten Mullen\, is From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. \nRegister Here for Zoom Lecture
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/from-here-to-equality-reparations-for-black-americans-in-the-21st-century/
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SUMMARY:Searching for Freedom: The George H. White Story
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation\, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History\, will host a film screening and Q & A about Post-Reconstruction Congressman George Henry White. This program is funded by Atlanta Civic Site–The Annie E. Casey Foundation and is free to the public. Registration is required. \nAbout the Program\nFarmer and historian Earl L. Ijames will introduce the film George H. White: Searching for Freedom and share a short video about the roles of North Carolina and Georgia in the passage of the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery. Following the screenings\, Ijames will facilitate a Q&A session. \nAbout the Film\nThe documentary film\, George H. White: Searching for Freedom (30 mins.)\, chronicles the career of post-Reconstruction Congressman George H. White. \nBorn in 1852 in Bladen County\, N.C. to a family of turpentine farmers\, George H. White was raised to believe that education was the path to progress. Upon graduating from Howard University in 1877 with a degree in education\, White settled in New Bern\, N.C. where he became a school principal and studied law. Soon after passing the North Carolina State Bar\, he won a seat in the state’s House of Representatives and proposed a bill to make education mandatory for all children. He later served in the North Carolina Senate\, where he continued to champion public education\, and as solicitor of his judicial district–the only Black solicitor in the United States. White quickly earned a reputation as a gifted attorney and charismatic orator\, gaining the support of Black voters in eastern North Carolina. \nIn 1896\, White was elected to the U.S. Congress. Following the infamous 1898 white supremacist insurrection in Wilmington\, N.C.\, he proposed the nation’s first anti-lynching bill\, a version of which was passed in 2022 as the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. White was reelected to a second term but departed in 1901\, as a wave of racial terror and Black disenfranchisement swept North Carolina and the south. In his farewell address to Congress\, White predicted the “Phoenixlike” return of Black representation in the federal government. Twenty-seven years would pass before another Black would serve in the U.S. Congress. \nAbout the Speaker\nEarl L. Ijames is a farmer\, historian and Curator\, African American History and Agriculture at the North Carolina Museum of History. Ijames also has many years of experience working in the North Carolina Office of Archives and History \nRegister Here for In-Person Event
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/searching-for-freedom-the-george-h-white-story/
LOCATION:Pittsburgh Yards\, 352 University Avenue\, SW\, Atlanta\, Georgia\, 30310
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:The Revival of Proslavery Thought in America
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation\, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History\, will host a lecture about the resurgence of proslavery thought in the United States. This program is funded by Atlanta Civic Site – The Annie E. Casey Foundation and is free to the public. Registration is required. \nAbout the Program\nIn this two-part talk\, Paul Finkelman will sketch out the nature of Pro-Slavery thought in the United States from the American Revolutionary War to the Civil War. In part one\, based primarily on his book\, Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South\, Second Edition (Bedford/St. Martins\, 2020)\, he will note the many areas of knowledge that defenders of slavery used to justify the institution. These defenses were based on\, among other things: Biblical analysis and religion\, science and medicine (as they were understood at the time)\, economics\, law\, novels and poems\, sociology\, philosophy\, geography\, and political theory. Southern defenders of slavery — from Thomas Jefferson in the 1780s to Jefferson Davis in the 1860s — used these areas of knowledge to justify slavery as an institution–particularly the enslavement of Africans and their American-born descendants. \nOne critical aspect of the intellectual world of the slave South was the suppression of ideas and discussion in universities. Southern universities and colleges did not teach\, or even discuss\, issues that undermined slavery\, and effectively required professors to support slavery in their teaching and in their personal lives. By the eve the Civil War\, southern educators were demanding special textbooks that would reflect their support for racism and slavery. \nIn part two\, professor Finkelman will discuss how many of these arguments\, theories\, and strategies have been resurrected and are being used to defend suppression of speech\, a dishonest rewriting of history\, and voter suppression. These include state legislatures and governors trying to prevent schools from using such words as “slave” or “gay” in classrooms\, and preventing even universities from teaching controversial subjects\, such as critical race theory—and states demanding that textbooks reflect the ideology of suppression spreading from Florida to Texas. Finally\, Dr. Finkelman will show how the parallels between the 19th and 21st centuries are obvious\, and frightening. \nAbout the Speaker\nProfessor Finkelman received his B.A. in American Studies from Syracuse University and his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. Later\, he was a Fellow in Law and Humanities at Harvard Law School. Professor Finkelman has held several endowed chairs as a tenured professor or as a visitor\, including the Ariel F. Sallows Chair in Human Rights Law at the University of Saskatchewan\, the John Hope Franklin Chair in American Legal History at Duke Law School\, and the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor at Albany Law School. In 2017 he held the Fulbright Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice at the University of Ottawa School of Law\, in Ottawa\, Canada and was also the John E. Murray Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Dr. Finkelman is the author of more than 200 scholarly articles and the author or editor of more than fifty books. His most recent book is\, Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court (Harvard University Press\, 2018). \nProfessor Finkelman has published in a wide variety of areas including American Jewish history\, American legal history\, constitutional law\, and legal issues regarding baseball. He has lectured on slavery\, human trafficking\, and human rights issues at the United Nations\, throughout the United States\, and in more than a dozen other countries. In 2014\, he was ranked the fifth most cited legal historian in American legal scholarship in Brian Leiter’s “Top Ten Law Faculty Scholarly Impact\, 2009-2013.” \nRegister Here for In-Person Event
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/the-revival-of-proslavery-thought-in-america/
LOCATION:Pittsburgh Yards\, 352 University Avenue\, SW\, Atlanta\, Georgia\, 30310
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