The Huffington Post has featured Thomas Sugrue, one of the keynote speakers at the upcoming conference, "Detroit Bankruptcy & Beyond: Organizing for Change in Distressed Cities," co-sponsored and organized by the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne State University Law School, Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength (MOSES), and the Haas Institute for a Fair & Inclusive Society (HIFIS).
Read the full article Thomas Sugrue is featured in: "Detroit Doesn't Need Hipsters To Survive, It Needs Black People."
Find more information on the conference and how to register here.
Thomas J. Sugrue is David Boies Professor of History and Sociology, and Director of the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a specialist in twentieth-century American politics, urban history, civil rights, and race. He is the author of several books, including Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North, and The Origins of the Urban Crisis.
