Sid Hastings

The second of three events in the Washington University in St. Louis series "Blacks in America: 400 years Plus" was held Sunday, Jun 2, 2019 with the inaugural University Libraries' Mary Curtis Horowitz Lecture for Civic Engagement and Social Policy entitled "Civil Rights: Past and Present" by Cornell W. Brooks, Harvard Kennedy School professor and former NAACP President & CEO, at Graham Chapel on the WUSTL Danforth Campus in St. Louis. Also making presentations were: Jack Kirkland, Associate Professor at the WUSTL Brown School of Social Work; Adrienne Davis, WUSTL Vice Provost and the William M. Van Cleve Professor; Nadia Shasedi, WUSTL Associate University Librarian; Julieanna Richardson, founder of The HistoryMakers; and Mary Curtis Horowitz, Chairman and Trustee of the Horowitz Foundation or Social Policy and funder of the lecture. Performances were by the Point of View Jazz Ensemble from the HEAL Center for the Arts, the Missouri African Methodist Episcopal Conference Choir and the Kuumba Youth Performance Ensemble of Better Family Life, Inc. The event was sponsored by the Horowitz Family Foundation for Social Policy, the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University through the Brown School Clark-Fox Policy Forum, the Brown School Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, the WUSTL Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement and Institutional Diversity, the WUSTL Office of the Provost and the Brown School Community Partnerships. The Kuumba Youth Performance Ensemble performs.
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