The Connecticut Forum presents: The Fight for Racial Justice

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THE FIGHT FOR RACIAL JUSTICE LIVE from The Bushnell Hosted by CT Humanities

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THE FIGHT FOR RACIAL JUSTICE Dear Friends,

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From the start, our mission has been to encourage the free and active exchange of ideas. At the heart of this mission is creating space for difficult and critical conversations that connect and strengthen our community.

We first explored the topic of racial justice at the Focus on Race Relations Forum during our inaugural season 30 years ago. Most recently, in 2015, we presented a Racism Forum. At these Forums, an audience of concerned citizens, students, and community, municipal, and business leaders came together for open conversations that invited them to listen, learn, question assumptions, consider new points of view, and connect with each other.

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Panel Discussion Julián Castro Cathy Park Hong Baratunde Thurston Melissa Harris-Perry, Moderator

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Today’s headlines and our own experiences confirm that the work of racial justice is far from finished. So tonight, we continue the conversation with The Fight for Racial Justice, a call-to-action Forum about understanding and dismantling systemic racism. Many thanks to our Host, CT Humanities.

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Welcome Back Nia Austin

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Please take a moment to learn about AMPLIFY, a campaign highlighting the work and priorities of Connecticut organizations working to create sustainable change in advancing racial justice. Visit ctforum.org/amplify to find curated recommendations for reading and learning, action and conversation, and information about these organizations. Our thanks to Hartford Foundation for Public Giving for their support of AMPLIFY.

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JULIÁN CASTRO Former HUD Secretary, Former Mayor of San Antonio, Political Analyst

A former Democratic candidate for President, Julián Castro served as the 16th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2017, and as mayor of San Antonio from 2009 to 2014.

At HUD, Castro spearheaded efforts to reduce homelessness and created Connect Home, a public-private partnership to deliver broadband to public housing residents.

As mayor of San Antonio, he brought a strong focus to expanding educational achievement, implementing Pre-K4SA, a high quality early childhood learning initiative that has earned praise as one of America’s strongest public prekindergarten programs.

A native Texan, Castro began his public service career in 2001, becoming San Antonio’s youngest

city councilman in history at the time. Castro made history again in 2012, when he delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, the first Latino to do so.

Following his service in the Obama administration, Castro served as the Dean’s Distinguished Fellow and Fellow of the Davila Chair in International Trade Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. His memoir, An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up From My American Dream was published in 2018.

Today, Castro serves on the board of the LBJ Foundation and is a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. Castro received a B.A. from Stanford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He and his wife, Erica, have a daughter, Carina, and a son, Cristián.

Throughout the month of February, The CT Forum, with support from Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, launched AMPLIFY, a campaign that highlights the work and priorities of Connecticut organizations working to create sustainable change in advancing racial justice.

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CATHY PARK HONG Award-winning Poet, New York Times Bestselling Author of Minor Feelings

Cathy Park Hong is an award-winning poet and essayist whose book, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, is a searching work that ruthlessly reckons with the American racial consciousness. Hong weaves together personal stories, historical context, and cultural criticism to ultimately create an emotional and impactful exploration of Asian American personhood.

She offers a fresh and honest perspective on race and Asian American identity, how poetry and writing can be a means for understanding ourselves and our world, and comments on the ways politics and culture are influenced by art.

Minor Feelings, the 2020 recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, is a radically honest meditation on the Asian American experience. Hong draws upon her background as a poet and the daughter of Korean immigrants

to create a work that flows seamlessly between cultural analysis, personal anecdotes, and historical framework. She writes about how her upbringing was steeped in shame and self-loathing. These “minor feelings,” she comes to understand in the book, were the result of believing the stereotypes that American society fed her about her own racial identity.

TIME named Minor Feelings one of the top 10 NonFiction books of 2020.

Hong is also the author of three poetry collections including Dance Dance Revolution, Engine Empire, and Translating Mo’Um. She is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Hong is the poetry editor of the New Republic and a full professor at the Rutgers University-Newark MFA program in poetry.

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BARATUNDE THURSTON Writer, Activist, Comedian Baratunde Thurston is an Emmy-nominated host who has worked for The Onion, produced for The Daily Show, advised the Obama White House, and wrote the New York Times bestseller How To Be Black. He’s the executive producer and host of How To Citizen with Baratunde which Apple named one of its favorite podcasts of 2020.

In 2019, Thurston delivered what MSNBC’s Brian Williams called “one of the greatest TED talks of all time.” He is unique in his ability to integrate and synthesize themes of race, culture, politics, and technology to explain where our nation is and where we can take it.

With an ancestry that includes a greatgrandfather who taught himself to read, a grandmother who was the first black employee at the U.S. Supreme Court building, a computerprogramming mother who took over radio stations

in the name of the black liberation struggle, and an older sister who teaches yoga in Michigan, Thurston has long been taught to question authority and forge his own path.

Thurston’s mind has found expression in the pages of Fast Company and The New York Times, the screens of HBO, Comedy Central, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, the sound waves of NPR and many podcasts.

Thurston co-founded Jack & Jill Politics, a black political blog whose coverage of the 2008 Democratic National Convention has been archived by the Library of Congress. He helped bring one of America’s finest journalistic institutions into the future, serving as Director of Digital for The Onion then did something similar at The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

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MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY Journalist, Writer, Professor at Wake Forest University Melissa Harris-Perry is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest where she teaches courses on American politics and elections at the intersections of race, place, and gender.

Harris-Perry is the Founder and President of the Anna Julia Cooper Center, an independent organization with a mission to advance justice and alleviate harm for women and girls of color in American higher education. Along with Dorian Warren, she is co-host of the podcast System Check.

Harris-Perry has contributed to American public life through her distinct combination of scholarly analysis and grounded wisdom applied to analysis of race, gender, politics, and power. She served as Editor-atLarge for ZORA.com and for Elle.com, and her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Harper’s Bazaar among others.

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Harris-Perry from 2012-2016 on weekend mornings on MSNBC. Committed to diversifying American journalism and mentoring emerging public voices, HarrisPerry has developed and implemented innovative mentoring efforts including the Elle.com scholars program and BLACK ON CAMPUS, a national student journalism program. She is the author of the awardwinning Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, and Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America.

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