Conversation with Holloway, Coates, Ifill and Nelson: “The New Civil Rights Agenda”

Monday, June 23, 2014 - 6:30pm to 8:15pm

Watch a live webcast of Jonathan Holloway in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates (National correspondent, The Atlantic); Sherrilyn Ifill (President, Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund), and Janai Nelson (Associate Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund),sponsored by New America NYC, on Monday, June 23, 2014, from 6:30pm-8:15pm.

Holloway, author of Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940 (2013), and panelists will talk about some of the most challenging issues facing the US today–“Stop-and-Frisk.  Voter ID laws. Jim Crow Redux. Reparations”–and how Americans can begin to address them for a more just society.

Live webcast: http://newamerica.net/events/2014/nyc_the_new_civil_rights_agenda 
Monday, June 23, 2014 - 6:30pm-8:15pm
New America NYC

View Jonathan Holloway’s faculty profile at Yale African American Studies Dept.