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New York’s Communities of Color and the Police: A Historical Perspective

Join us for a virtual discussion about how communities of color have experienced and responded to the police in twentieth-century New York. Veteran TV journalist Carol Jenkins leads three distinguished professors of African-American history in a conversation about the complex roots of our city’s (and nation’s) ongoing crisis of policing, focusing on key moments from the 1920s through the 1980s. With LaShawn Harris (Michigan State), Carl Suddler (Emory), and Cheryl Hicks (University of Delaware).











When: Wed., Jul. 29, 2020 at 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Where: Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Ave.
212-534-1672
Price: Free! Pre-registration required
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Join us for a virtual discussion about how communities of color have experienced and responded to the police in twentieth-century New York. Veteran TV journalist Carol Jenkins leads three distinguished professors of African-American history in a conversation about the complex roots of our city’s (and nation’s) ongoing crisis of policing, focusing on key moments from the 1920s through the 1980s. With LaShawn Harris (Michigan State), Carl Suddler (Emory), and Cheryl Hicks (University of Delaware).

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