Talks at the Schomburg: The New Black

Join Kenneth W. Mack, Lawrence Biele Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and editor of The New Black: What Has Changed—And What Has Not—With Race in America for a conversation on the contemporary state of American race relations.  Mack will be joined on stage by some of the country’s most celebrated and original thinkers on race who contributed provocative and insightful essays including Paul Butler, Law Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, Elizabeth Alexander, author and Chair of the African American Studies Department at Yale University and Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia University and columnist at The Nation.

A book signing will follow the program.