Do #Blacklivesmatter? : A Dialogue on Blacktivism, Racial Justice, and the Value of Black Lives

Tuesday, February 17, 2015 from 7pm-9pm  

Tufts University: Cabot Hall’s ASEAN Auditorium

Panel conversation on topics including the impact of “Blacktivism”, Black experience in the U.S., the criminal justice system, and the role media plays in the #blacklivesmatter movement.
Panelists:

·         Pete Haviland-Eduah, National Policy Director from Million Hoodies Movement for Justice

·         DeRay Mckesson, hashtag activist, Ferguson protest organizer, and co-founder of wetheprotesters.org

·         Keith Maddox, Associate Professor of Psychology, Tufts University

·         Tricia Rose, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and Professor of African               American Cultural Politics and Gender Studies, Brown University