Anti-Racism Teach-In Series: Racial Justice and Restorative Justice in a Time of Awakening, Repair, and Reimagining

Description

Featuring Fania Davis, founder and director of Restorative Justice of Oakland Youth (RJOY). She is a long-time social justice activist, civil rights trial attorney, restorative justice practitioner, writer, professor, and scholar with a doctorate in Indigenous knowledge. Coming of age in Birmingham, Alabama, during the social ferment of the civil rights era, the murder of two close childhood friends in the 1963 Sunday School bombing crystallized within Fania a passionate commitment to social transformation.

Optional pre-event readings:

• https://truthout.org/articles/confronting-white-supremacy-cant-come-through-top-down-justice/
• https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2016/07/08/this-country-needs-a-truth-and-reconciliation-process-on-violence-against-african-americans

Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Office of Inclusion, Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Equity and the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health.

The event will be closed captioned.