Members of Austin Mayor Steve Adler’s Task Force on Institutional Racism and Systemic Inequities and will discuss MLK’s legacy and issues facing the Austin community. Panelists are Colette Pierce Burnette, president of Huston-Tillotson University; Eric Tang, professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Center for Asian American Studies; and Virginia Cumberbatch, director of the Community Engagement Center at the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement. Peniel Joseph, professor of Public Affairs and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, will moderate the discussion.
Location: University of Texas, Sid Richardson Hall Unit 3, (SRH 3.122), 2315 Red River Street, Austin