With Nancy Gertner, Harvard Law, Retired Federal Judge and Lecia Brooks, Southern Poverty Law Center; moderated by UMN American Studies Regents Professor Elaine Tyler May.

This panel discussion brings Gertner and Brooks into conversation to discuss issues of race and justice in America. The two discuss the roles of the justice system and advocacy, and why the history of the late 1960s is so relevant to issues of violence and race today.

This talk is presented as part of the IAS's yearlong 1968-1969 presentation and discussion series, copresented by Northrop and the University Honors Program. It is additionally cosponsored by the departments of History, Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development, and Comparative Languages & Literature, the College of Liberal Arts, the Law School, the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, The Givens Collection, Umbra Search African American History, and the Imagine Fund.