by Rasheed Shabazz | September 17, 2014
Prof. john powell kicked off the 2014 Ruth Chance Lecture series on Sept. 15. This year’s lecture series is themed, “The Next 50,” marking the 50-year anniversaries of the Civil Rights Act, launch of the War on Poverty and the Free Speech Movement. powell is director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society.
powell spoke on the topic of "Race and Inequality in the 21st Century" and the role of implicit bias in racial marginalization today. The lecture series is hosted by the Thelton Henderson Center for Social Justice and will bring leading civil rights lawyers to Berkeley to examine the unfinished work of these movements, place current challenges in social justice work into historical context and offer a vision for the next fifty years of transformative justice work.
