Speak Up / Speak Out
Conversations About Race
Join us as we continue to discuss race and social justice in Columbus and in America.

Thursday, April 22 | 2-3 p.m.
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
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Moderator:
Donna Zuiderweg, CCEO, Columbus Metropolitan Library
Panelists:
Tasha Booker, Executive Director, City Year Columbus, Daniel Juday, Speaker + Convener, Daniel Juday LLC, Amelia Robinson, Opinion and Community Impact Editor, The Columbus Dispatch, Dr. Anthony Wilson, President – Central Ohio Chapter, National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives

Tuesday, May 25 | 2-3 p.m.
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria?
by Beverly Daniel Tatum
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Wednesday, June 23 | 2-3 p.m.
How We Fight for Our Lives
by Saeed Jones
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MODERATOR: TBD

Thursday, July 22 | 2-3 p.m.
Broken on All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration & New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S.
Stream on Kanopy.
MODERATOR: TBD

Tuesday, Aug. 24 | 2-3 p.m.
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
by Brittney Cooper
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MODERATOR: TBD

I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 documentary film directed by Raoul Peck, based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House. Narrated by actor Samuel L. Jackson, the film explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin’s reminiscences of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as his personal observations of American history.
The film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2017 Academy Awards.
DISCUSSION 1
I Am Not Your Negro
Stream on Kanopy or check it out on DVD or Blu-ray
Donna Zuiderweg, CCEO, Columbus Metropolitan Library
Jevon Collins, Performing Arts Director, King Arts Complex, Chris Hamel, CEO, Gateway Film Center, Angela Pace, Community Affairs Director, WBNS-10TV and Letha Pugh, Co-Founder, Bake Me Happy, LLC.

In The Color of Law, Rothstein describes how American cities became so racially divided through federal, state and local governments that systematically imposed residential segregation: racial zoning, public housing that segregated previously mixed communities, subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs, tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods – policies that influence tragedies in places like Ferguson and Baltimore.
DISCUSSION 2
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by Richard Rothstein
Check it out: Book, eBook, eAudiobook
MODERATOR:
Patrick Losinski, CEO, Columbus Metropolitan Library
PANELISTS:
Yvette McGee Brown, Partner, Jones Day, The Honorable Algenon R. Marbley, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court – Southern District of Ohio, A.J. Montero, Partner, NBBJ, Carter Stewart, Managing Director, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Additional Resources:
Richard Rothstein talks with Ta-Nehisi Coates
Richard Rothstein discusses the book on NPR’s “Fresh Air”
Video: “Segregated by Design”
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