Today on Sojourner Truth:
In the midst of uprisings across the nation and supported by protesters around the world, as a response to the recent spate of police killings of Black people, including George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a special roundtable discussion with a distinguished panel of experts. The uprisings happening now are the most extensive in the United States since the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Trump administration has attacked the protesters and threatened the use of military force against them. We discuss what led to this moment in U.S. history. Our panelists are Dorothy Roberts, Dr. Robin Kelley, Dr. Peniel E. Joseph.
Dorothy Roberts is George A. Weiss University Professor at University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School, where she is the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights.
Dr. Robin Kelley is the Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA.
Dr. Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Political Values and Ethics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin.
