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USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture (online) — Black x Japanese American Reparations: An Ito Center Spring 2021 Virtual Event Series and Book Club

Reparations Past and Present: A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates

A conversation with journalist, MacArthur Fellow, and National Book Award-winning author Ta-nehisi Coates. During his tenure as senior editor at The Atlantic, Coates wrote the influential 2014 essay “The Case for Reparations” and in 2019 testified in front of a Congressional House hearing on H.R. 40, a bill to establish a commission to study reparations. The conversation will be moderated by Duncan Ryuken Williams (USC Ito Center).

Earlier Event: April 4
Healing America's Racial Karma: A Conversation with Larry Ward
Later Event: April 15
Venice Japanese American Memorial Monument — Memorial and Monument: Remembering the Japanese American Past