Black Lives Matter: Continuing Conversations for Bowdoin Alumni
Tuesday, August 25

5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Read, watch, and/or listen, and then join fellow alumni for a discussion to deepen your engagement with the Black Lives Matter movement and efforts to work towards a more just and equitable society. This is an opportunity to engage in anti-racist conversations and learn about the deep legacy of racism and oppression against Black/African American people in the United States. Commit to one of the resources below to help inform the discussion. Cosponsored by the Office of Alumni Relations and the Office of Inclusion and Diversity, with support from staff facilitators. Open to all alumni.

Resources to choose from include:

·        Slavery by Another Name (documentary film)

·        The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (book, available in print, digital, and audiobook)

·        1619 (podcast series from The New York Times)

·        13th (documentary film, available via YouTube and Netflix)

·        Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds (young adult and original versions of book, available in print, digital, and audiobook)