Black History Month: Progress, Promise, and the Future

For this month’s episode of Justice Matters we are digging into our archives to present a special episode for Black History month. We’re featuring excerpts from three conversations with a range of speakers from academia and activism to discuss the historical legacy of enslavement, the periods of progress followed by rollbacks, the promise and peril of the current moment, and how we build more inclusive and just societies for the future. Join our host Sushma Raman as she speaks with Wade Henderseon, the interim CEO of the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights, Dr. Keisha Blain, award winning historian and author of “Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Struggle for Global Freedom,” and Dr. Megan Ming Francis author of “Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State.”