This Third Rail dialogue tackles the complex, urgent, and difficult subject of racism and policing. Connie Rice is a lawyer, author, and public intellectual of national renown for fighting systemic injustice with coalition lawsuits that have won over $10 billion in damages and policy changes that helped millions in poor neighborhoods. Rice’s advocacy has earned over 50 major awards and prompted Los Angeles Magazine to call her “the voice for LA’s oppressed.” A member of President Barack Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, Rice is a national figure in police reform and a leading expert in changing police culture. Her unique work galvanized the police, poor residents, gang interventionists, and government agencies to jointly transform inner-city safety to help end LA’s gang homicide epidemic.

Moderated by Tricia Rose, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) and Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University.

Free and open to the public. Please register to attend.

As CSREA’s annual signature event, the Third Rail Lecture Series aims to address some of the most thorny and contentious social, political, and cultural issues related to race and ethnicity in contemporary society.