Unfortunately, the August 9, 2014, the police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, was not an isolated incident. Nor will the issues it raises be resolved anytime soon, if the problems of policing and police practices continue as they are today.

Join faculty, students, and affiliates of the Columbia University Institute for Research in African-American Studies in a contextual discussion of black communities, policing, and youth in the United States.

Panelist Include:
Beulah Agbabiaka
Columbia University CC’ 2015 | African-American Studies and Jazz Studies

Christina Greer 
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Fordham University

Ernest Morell
Macy Professor of Education
Professor in the Department of Arts and Humanities
Director, Institute for Urban and Minority Education
Teachers College Columbia University

Rashad Robinson
Executive Director of ColorOfChange

Carla Shedd
Assistant Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies
Columbia University

Moderator: 
Samuel K. Roberts
Columbia University
Director, Institute for Research in African-American Studies
Associate Professor of History & Sociomedical Sciences