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New RACE AND POLITICS SERIES Kicks Off February 1

Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 4:15pm

THE RACE AND POLITICS SERIES is an initiative conducted in partnership with Penn’s Black Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (BGAPSA) to promote community dialogue and critical conversations about the significance of race and racism in politics, both in history and today. Through a variety of events that confront such topics as civil rights, activism, family dynamics, civic engagement, and more, the Race and Politics Series strives to bring together diverse communities, inclusive of all race-related affinity groups on campus, to engage in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary discussion about important and sometimes controversial issues pertaining to the role of race in democratic politics. Given the powerful role race plays in so many democracies today, the Race and Politics Series aims to illuminate a core aspect of the contemporary experience of democratic citizenship. The first event, "Having Difficult Conversations with Family About Race, Racism and Politics,"  is on Thursday, February 1 at 6:30 pm in Arch 107/110.