FW: TOMORROW @4pm EDT - Racial Politics in the post George Floyd Era

[Wendy Philpott]

Hello colleagues,
Please consider joining this virtual event happening tomorrow at 4pm with moderation by Dr. Vershawn Young (Communication Arts and English). Details below:

From: Ange Holmes <ange.holmes at ryerson.ca>
Date: Monday, June 13, 2022 at 12:24 PM
To:
Subject: TOMORROW @4pm EDT - Racial Politics in the post George Floyd Era
Greetings,

I hope this finds you well. I wanted to share with you details of an upcoming event that may be of interest to you. On Tuesday, June 14th (tomorrow) at 4pm EDT, the Centre for Free Expression is hosting the final event of the spring titled, Racial Politics in the post George Floyd Era, featuring Desmond Cole, El Jones, and Adolph Reed, Jr. This discussion will be moderated by Vershawn Young. This is a virtual event and the zoom link for the event is: ryerson.zoom.us/j/91941276567<http://ryerson.zoom.us/j/91941276567>

The online event listing and poster can be seen here<https://cfe.ryerson.ca/events/racial-politics-post-george-floyd-era>. The poster for the event is attached.

Event Details:

Online harms legislation, hate crimes units, appealing to Big Tech to censor speech are all being touted as “anti-racist” solutions. Join Desmond Cole, El Jones and Adolph Reed, Jr. as they discuss the legacy of the Black Radical tradition, free speech, and the current state of left organizing across borders. Is EDI the answer? What is the role of class in current struggle? Are identity politics counter-revolutionary? These questions and more animate a broader debate about racial politics in the “post George Floyd” era.

Panelists
• Desmond Cole, Journalist, Author of The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
•  El Jones, Poet, Journalist, and Assistant Professor of Political Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University
• Adolph Reed, Jr., Professor emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, Author of Without Justice For All: The New Liberalism And Our Retreat From Racial Equality

Moderator
• Vershawn Young, Professor of Black Studies, Communication Arts, and English at the  University of Waterloo, author and editor of This Ain't Yesterday's Literacy: Culture and Education After George Floyd.

This is a free event and no registration is required.

Please do join us or share it with anyone you think would be interested!

If you have any questions, please do reach out.

Best,

Ange Holmes
Coordinator | Centre for Free Expression<http://cfe.ryerson.ca>
Toronto Metropolitan University (Recently renamed)
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