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Many young law students begin their studies with high hopes of generating change by becoming a lawyer and advocate, but what does this lofty dream look like in the real world? Leah Haberman talks with Professor Dorothy Roberts about her career as a lawyer, professor, author, and activist. Professor Roberts shares how her unique skills led her to leverage her curiosity and passions to become an expert on racial interconnections and tensions in many legal issues, particularly those involving reproductive injustices and child welfare. She shares many tips for law students on how to bring focus to their strengths and interests, embrace collaboration, and make small but meaningful changes in the world; one day at a time. Dorothy Roberts is the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology, and the Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at University of Pennsylvania.

Many young law students begin their studies with high hopes of generating change by becoming a lawyer and advocate, but what does this lofty dream look like in the real world? Leah Haberman talks with Professor Dorothy Roberts about her career as a lawyer, professor, author, and activist. Professor Roberts shares how her unique skills led her to leverage her curiosity and passions to become an expert on racial interconnections and tensions in many legal issues, particularly those involving reproductive injustices and child welfare. She shares many tips for law students on how to bring focus to their strengths and interests, embrace collaboration, and make small but meaningful changes in the world; one day at a time. Dorothy Roberts is the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology, and the Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at University of Pennsylvania.

On today's episode, Dorothy Roberts joins me and UVA Law 3Ls Darius Adel and Julia D'Rozario to discuss her work on race-based medicine and the child welfare system. Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. Professor Roberts' work focuses on urgent social justice issues in policing, family regulation, science, medicine, and bioethics. Her major books include Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Basic Books, 2022); Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (New Press, 2011); Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002), and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997). She is also the author of more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, as well as a co-editor of six books on such topics as constitutional law and women and the law. Her work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Harvard Program on Ethics & the Professions, and Stanford Center for the Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity. Recent recognitions of her scholarship and public service include 2019 Rutgers University- Newark Honorary Doctor of Laws degree, 2017 election to the National Academy of Medicine, 2016 Society of Family Planning Lifetime Achievement Award, 2016 Tanner Lectures on Human Values, and the 2015 American Psychiatric Association Solomon Carter Fuller Award.  Show notes: Dorothy Roberts Full Bio, University of Pennsylvania https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/roberts1 Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Basic Books, 2022)Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (New Press, 2011)Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002)Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997).

In conversation with Dorothy Roberts One of the country's foremost authorities in civil rights, Black feminist legal theory, race, and the law, Kimberlé Crenshaw is a law professor at UCLA and Columbia Law School, where in 1996 she founded the African American Policy Forum. She is the co-author of Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women and Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected, and her articles have appeared in Harvard Law Review, the National Black Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, The New Republic, and The Nation. The coiner of the terms ''critical race theory'' and ''intersectionality,'' Crenshaw served on the legal team of Anita Hill during the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and wrote the background paper on race and gender discrimination for the United Nations' World Conference on Racism in 2001. Including a forward by Janelle Monáe, #SayHerName explains how Black women are especially susceptible to police violence and the ways in which various communities can help empower them. Addressing social justice issues of policing, state surveillance of families, and science, Dorothy Roberts's books include Killing the Black Body, Shattered Bonds, and Fatal Invention. She has also authored more than 100 scholarly articles and has co-edited six books on various legal issues. The George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania, Roberts is the director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. In her latest book Torn Apart she explains that the abolition of the U.S. child welfare system-which is designed to punish Black families-will liberate Black communities. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep our podcasts free for everyone. THANK YOU! (recorded 11/14/2023)

If you're interested in learning about a lawyer and activist who helped outlaw school segregation in Pennsylvania and later became the first Black judge appointed to the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, then my Raymond Pace Alexander Black History Facts profile is for you. Show notes and sources are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/raymond-pace-alexander.

“The Long Struggle to Abolish Reproductive Slavery” with Dorothy Roberts Annual Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights Presented in partnership with the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at UT-Austin School of Law The Rothko Chapel and the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin present the eighth annual Sissy Farenthold Lecture featuring acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, on the intersections between reproductive rights, criminalization of pregnancy, and the family policing/separation systems in the aftermath of the June 2022 Dobbs decision. Roberts will explore the histories of compelled births in the US dating back to Black women's reproductive bondage during slavery, and the abolitionist frameworks that call for the dismantling of these targeted, oppressive structures for more compassionate and equitable reproductive rights and family support systems. The lecture will be followed by conversation moderated by Eleanor Klibanoff, women's health reporter at the Texas Tribune, and a book signing on the Welcome House Plaza of Robert's Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (2022). Named in honor of Sissy Farenthold (1926-2021), who dedicated her life to exposing and responding to injustices as a lawyer, legislator, and global leader in human rights, this lecture series inspires audiences to think and act creatively in response to the greatest human rights challenges of the 21st century.

Dorothy Roberts - Acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law who joined the University of Pennsylvania as its 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School where she holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander chair. She joins Tavis for a conversation about her latest text “Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World”

More than one in ten Black children in America will be forcibly separated from their parents and placed in foster care by the time they reach age eighteen. Professor Dorothy Roberts joins us to discuss the racialized history of parenting, family autonomy, and the child welfare system. From the role of slavery in framing the Black mother to disastrous 90s legislation rooted in racial stereotypes, Professor Roberts makes the case that child welfare was designed to punish the most disenfranchised communities instead of to protect children. After over thirty years of research, Dr. Roberts concludes that abolition is the only way to end the trauma caused by what she calls family policing. Guest: Dorothy Roberts (@DorothyERoberts) is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, and a professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her newest book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families– and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World is available today. If you enjoy this show and want to help fight poverty and injustice, consider making a donation to Community Legal Services today! You can also follow us on Twitter @CLSphila to stay connected. 

In conversation with Marc Lamont Hill Addressing social justice issues of policing, state surveillance of families, and science, Dorothy Roberts's books include Killing the Black Body, Shattered Bonds, and Fatal Invention. She has also authored more than 100 scholarly articles and has co-edited six books on various legal issues. The George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania, Roberts is the director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. In Torn Apart she explains that the abolition of the U.S. child welfare system-which is designed to punish Black families-will liberate Black communities. The Steve Charles Chair in Media, Cities and Solutions at Temple University, Marc Lamont Hill is the host of BET News and the Coffee and Books podcast. The recipient of honors from the National Association of Black Journalists, GLAAD, and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, he is the author of six books, including Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life; Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond; and Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. (recorded 4/26/2022)

A Select History of Race, Labor, & Reproduction in the U.S.“Black women are at the heart of the history of the Atlantic world.”  Jennifer MorganWhat does it mean to be gendered as laborers? Both physiologically and economically? How has that served colonial and U.S. economic interests? And how has the U.S. responded when Black women's labor and reproduction no longer served racial capitalism?Tune in to time travel with us: your host, Taja Lindley, and our guests - Jennifer Morgan and Dorothy Roberts - as we discuss historical evidence and insight into these questions.Be sure to support this work at Patreon.com/TajaLindley where you will be able to access exclusive content (including the upcoming Taja Tuesday Artist Talk) and full length interviews. Jennifer L. Morgan is Professor of History in the department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University where she also serves as Chair.  She is the author of Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic (Duke University Press, 2021, enter E21MORGN for a discount!); Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) and the co-editor of Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in America (University of Illinois Press, 2016). Her research examines the intersections of gender and race in the Black Atlantic. Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments in Africana Studies, Sociology, and the Law School, where she is the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. An acclaimed scholar and social justice activist, she is author of Killing the Black Body; Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare; Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century; and Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World.Learn more about podcast guests here!Support the Show!Follow @BlackWomensLabor on Instagram and turn on notifications!Sign up for our newsletter!Support our work on Patreon where you will have exclusive access to full length interviews with each of our guests featured this season. Make a one-time donation on PayPal. Purchase the podcast music (and remix!). All sales go towards the production of the podcast and support with project expenses.Visit www.BlackWomensLabor.com to learn more.CREDITSCreator, Host and HBIC of the Support the show

Welcome to Difficult Conversations with Dr. Anthony Orsini.  Today, I am are honored to have another amazing guest.  Our guest today is Dorothy Roberts, who is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School where she holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She's also the founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, & Society. Dorothy is the author of several award-winning books including, Killing the Black Body, Shattered Bonds, Fatal Invention, and Torn Apart, coming out soon. Recent recognitions of her work include 2019 Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees at Rutgers University, 2017 election to the National Academy of Medicine, 2016 Society of Family Planning Lifetime Achievement Award. Her TED talk on, “The problem with race-based medicine.” has had over 1 million views. Dr Roberts tells us about her background, growing up in Chicago and how she pursued her interest in social justice.  We learn what race-based medicine is and why it is such a big problem. Dorothy shares a story about a clinical trial she participated in and why it seemed so unscientific to use race as a variable. We find out who Dr. Samuel Cartwright was,  and why he is so important to understanding the role that racial medicine has played over time  in America.  Dorothy discusses the impact that diagnostic tools being used in medicine today that use  automatic race correction have  for black patients based on false assumptions.   We learn why it is so important when speaking to medical students and physicians to ask why they are using race when they should be looking at genetics.  We discuss her  book, Fatal Invention, that is used by incoming medical students across the country, as well as her new book coming out in April, Torn Apart, which is about racism in the child welfare system.  Host:Dr. Anthony OrsiniGuest:Dorothy RobertsFor More Information:The Orsini WayThe Orsini Way-FacebookThe Orsini Way-LinkedInThe Orsini Way-InstagramThe Orsini Way-Twitterdrorsini@theorsiniway.comIt's All In The Delivery: Improving Healthcare Starting With A Single Conversation by Dr. Anthony OrsiniResources Dorothy Roberts Twitterdorothyroberts@law.upenn.eduTED Talk 2015- Dorothy Roberts: The problem with race-based medicineFatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create race in the Twenty-first Century by Dorothy RobertsTorn Apart:  How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World by Dorothy Roberts 

Raymond Pace Alexander was born in Philadelphia to former enslaved people, but graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and became the go-to civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia.  In 1959, he became the first black judge to sit on the Court of Common Pleas.  His wife Sadie Tanner Mossell was the first Black women to earn an economics degree in the US, but then also became a lawyer.  Together they spent their lives battling racism in Philadelphia.  Their stories are truly inspiring.  

Today's show is all about reproductive health, rights and justice. We are unpacking the Texas abortion law, S.B. 8, talking about the Supreme Court, and what the legacies of legislative interference with reproductive decision-making and autonomy mean for women, people who can become pregnant, and for U.S. democracy.    We're diving right in with a very special guest and pioneer in the reproductive justice movement and thought leader on reproductive health and rights:  Professor Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body, Shattered Bonds and the forthcoming page-turner, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. She is the George A. Weiss University professor of law and sociology, the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander professor of civil rights, as well as a professor of Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also serves as the director of the Program on Race, Science and Society.  Rate and review “On the Issues with Michele Goodwin" to let us know what you think of the show! Let's show the power of independent feminist media.  Check out this episode's landing page at MsMagazine.com for a full transcript, links to articles referenced in this episode, further reading and ways to take action. Tips, suggestions, pitches? Get in touch with us at ontheissues@msmagazine.com. Support the show (http://msmagazine.com)

Episode 1594: Our article of the day is Raymond Pace Alexander.

Join us for a virtual teach in on police, surveillance, and technology with Ruha Benjamin and Dorothy Roberts ---------------------------------------------------- With calls for “defunding police” on the rise, invisible, tech-mediated surveillance continues to penetrate every area of our lives – workplaces, schools, hospitals, and of course policing itself. How does this relate to a longer history of surveilling Black life and how are people mobilizing against this New Jim Code? From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this conversation, Dorothy Roberts and Ruha Benjamin explore a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity: by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies, by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions, or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. They take us into the world of biased bots, altruistic algorithms, and their many entanglements, and provide conceptual tools to resist the New Jim Code with historically and sociologically-informed skepticism. In doing so, they challenge us to question not only the technologies we are sold, but also the ones we manufacture ourselves. ---------------------------------------------------- Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founder of the Just Data Lab, and author of People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (2013) and Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019) among other publications. Her work investigates the social dimensions of science, medicine, and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and inequity, health and justice, knowledge and power. Professor Benjamin is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Institute for Advanced Study, and the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton. For more info visit www.ruhabenjamin.com Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, joined the University of Pennsylvania as its 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School where she holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander chair. She is also founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society in the Center for Africana Studies. Her path breaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent social justice issues in policing, family regulation, science, medicine, and biopolitics. Her major books include Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century; Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare, and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. ---------------------------------------------------- Get a copy of Ruha Benjamin's book Race After Technology: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9781509526406 Order Dorothy Roberts' book Fatal Invention: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9781595588340 Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/tf0nEQTLw04 Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

With rates of diagnoses and death disproportionately affecting racial minorities and low-income workers, experts in this episode address how COVID-19 has further exposed already dire health outcome inequalities.We begin with a political scientist discussing how governmental policy drives health inequality, especially during times of crisis. Then, a Ph.D. student in history and sociology of science talks about how infectious microbes like the coronavirus can affect communities of people with genetic vulnerabilities. And finally, a professor of sociology, Africana studies, and law, discusses how the biological concept of race was invented as a way to justify racism and influence outcomes.FEATURING:Julia Lynch, Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International StudiesRebecca Mueller, doctoral candidate in the Department of History and Sociology of ScienceDorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, and Professor of Africana Studies***Produced by Blake ColeNarrated by Alex ScheinEdited by Alex Schein and Brooke SietinsonsInterviews by Blake Cole and Jane CarrollTheme music by Nicholas Escobar, C'18Additional music by Blue Dot SessionsIllustration by Nick MatejLogo by Drew NealisIn These Times is a production of Penn Arts & Sciences. Visit our series website to learn more and listen to the first season of In These Times. Visit our editorial magazine, Omnia, for more content from Penn Arts & Sciences faculty, students, and alumni. Follow Penn Arts & Sciences on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.  

With rates of diagnoses and death disproportionately affecting racial minorities and low-income workers, experts in this episode address how COVID-19 has further exposed already dire health outcome inequalities.We begin with a political scientist discussing how governmental policy drives health inequality, especially during times of crisis. Then, a Ph.D. student in history and sociology of science talks about how infectious microbes like the coronavirus can affect communities of people with genetic vulnerabilities. And finally, a professor of sociology, Africana studies, and law, discusses how the biological concept of race was invented as a way to justify racism and influence outcomes.FEATURING:Julia Lynch, Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International StudiesRebecca Mueller, doctoral candidate in the Department of History and Sociology of ScienceDorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, and Professor of Africana Studies***Produced by Blake ColeNarrated by Alex ScheinEdited by Alex Schein and Brooke SietinsonsInterviews by Blake Cole and Jane CarrollTheme music by Nicholas Escobar, C'18Additional music by Blue Dot SessionsIllustration by Nick MatejLogo by Drew NealisIn These Times is a production of Penn Arts & Sciences. Visit our series website to learn more and listen to the first season of In These Times. Visit our editorial magazine, Omnia, for more content from Penn Arts & Sciences faculty, students, and alumni. Follow Penn Arts & Sciences on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.  

Acclaimed scholar of race, gender and law, Dorothy E. Roberts discusses the harm and health inequities produced by structural racism, with race correction in medicine disqualifying black people from specialised care, and evident collaboration of doctors and lawyers in promoting juridical ideas about race. Addressing a violent policing system that can be traced back to slave patrols and black codes, Dorothy also explains the need for abolition of the entire policing apparatus in the US.This conversation was recorded on 28th August 2020Speaker: Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, University of PennsylvaniaExecutive producer: Paul GilroyProducer and Editor: Kaissa KarhuRead the transcript for this podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today on Sojourner Truth, our annual Juneteenth special. Since 1865, when enslaved people in Texas finally got the news that the Emancipation Proclamation was signed three years prior, Black people took the holiday, Black Freedom Day, to other cities and towns where they settled. Now, as a result of the massive protests against police killings and racism across the United States, Juneteenth has been given a new focus and meaning, including by some who previously ignored it or didn't know about it. Despite Donald Trump's claim that people found out about Juneteenth because of him, it was the persistence of Black people's continued fight for our freedom that more people in the United States, including in the corporate world, are paying attention to this year's Juneteenth. Today, we dig deep into the significance of Juneteenth, as a day to mark the continued resistance of Black people to our oppression and what must be done, including the growing calls for reparations. Our guests are Dorothy Roberts, Ash-Lee Henderson and Dr. Gerald Horne. Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor at the 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. Ash-Lee Henderson is an Affrilachian (Black Appalachian), working class womyn, born and raised in Southeast Tennessee. She is the first Black woman to serve as the co-executive director of the Highlander Research and Education Center and is an active participant in the Movement for Black Lives. Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston, has written more than 30 books. His most recently published book is The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, published in June 2020.

Today on Sojourner Truth, our annual Juneteenth special. Since 1865, when enslaved people in Texas finally got the news that the Emancipation Proclamation was signed three years prior, Black people took the holiday, Black Freedom Day, to other cities and towns where they settled. Now, as a result of the massive protests against police killings and racism across the United States, Juneteenth has been given a new focus and meaning, including by some who previously ignored it or didn't know about it. Despite Donald Trump's claim that people found out about Juneteenth because of him, it was the persistence of Black people's continued fight for our freedom that more people in the United States, including in the corporate world, are paying attention to this year's Juneteenth. Today, we dig deep into the significance of Juneteenth, as a day to mark the continued resistance of Black people to our oppression and what must be done, including the growing calls for reparations. Our guests are Dorothy Roberts, Ash-Lee Henderson and Dr. Gerald Horne. Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor at the 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. Ash-Lee Henderson is an Affrilachian (Black Appalachian), working class womyn, born and raised in Southeast Tennessee. She is the first Black woman to serve as the co-executive director of the Highlander Research and Education Center and is an active participant in the Movement for Black Lives. Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston, has written more than 30 books. His most recently published book is The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, published in June 2020.

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.

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.

Dorothy Roberts and Jonathan Marks examine whether race is a social invention, and the consequences of categorizing race biologically. Experts Dorothy E. RobertsGeorge A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, University of Pennsylvania Law School Johnathan MarksProfessor, Biological Anthropologist, UNC Charlotte Host Eleanor Barrett Associate Dean for Legal Practice Skills University of Pennsylvania Law School

Dorothy Roberts and Jonathan Marks examine whether race is a social invention, and the consequences of categorizing race biologically. Experts Dorothy E. RobertsGeorge A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, University of Pennsylvania Law School Johnathan MarksProfessor, Biological Anthropologist, UNC Charlotte Host Eleanor Barrett Associate Dean for Legal Practice Skills University of Pennsylvania Law School

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, joined the University of Pennsylvania as its 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and the Law School where she also holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander chair. Her pathbreaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent contemporary issues in health, social justice, and bioethics, especially as they impact the lives of women, children and African-Americans. Her major books include Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (New Press, 2011); Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002), and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997). She is the author of more than 80 scholarly articles and book chapters, as well as a co-editor of six books on such topics as constitutional law and women and the law.