Restorative Justice Colloquium – TODAY

3/25/2021

Dear FSU Members,

The FSU writes to alert everyone about an excellent event today from 6:30 to 8:30pm -- the Restorative Justice Colloquium on “Culture, Consciousness and Healing within the African Diaspora.”   Register for this webinar.

There will be an Introduction and Welcome by Imari Paris Jeffries (Executive Director of King Boston and a Trustee of the UMass System). Panelists include Rob "ProBlak" Gibbs (a visual artist and organizer who has transformed the cultural landscape of Boston through graffiti art since 1991), Dr. Aminah Pilgrim (Senior Lecturer II of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies & Critical Ethnic and Community Studies, UMass Boston), and Dr. Thierry Gustave (Senior Lecturer in French, Coordinator of Elementary French Language, UMass Boston). Dr. Tony Van Der Meer (Senior Lecturer II of Africana Studies, UMass Boston) and Dr. Keith Jones (Visiting Assistant Professor, Africana Studies, UMass Boston) will serve as facilitators.

Recommended Reading: Homegoing, “Akua” (pgs. 177-198), “Willie” (pgs. 199-221), and “Yaw (pgs. 222-242)

For more information and to register go here:   https://www.umb.edu/homegoing