Project 400 Conference Explores The Impacts of Racism in America

Daniel Gray-Kontar

Fri 2/26-Sat 2/27 @ 10AM-3PM

The two-day Project 400 virtual conference would probably need more than two days to explore its ambitious topics: the impact of the pandemic in exposing racial disparities across health care, education, technology and the economy, as well as social justice, racism and lack of equity in general.

Its name refers to the 1619 Project launched in 2019 by the New York Times to mark and educate people about the first enslaved Africans brought to North America. That much work remains to be done was shown by outrage from the right and Trump’s formation of the 1776 Project to whitewash American history (President Biden has cancelled that initiative).

On Friday February 26 the keynote speaker is Rolling Stone senior writer Jamil Smith, a Shaker Heights High School graduate who covers national affairs and culture. On Saturday February 27, former state senator Nina Turner is the keynote speaker.

An array of panels will cover issues such as health care, racial inequities in the COVID-19 era, policing, mass incarceration and the social control of Black America, and education and social justice. “Interlude” sessions will offer a musical recording by Ta Da Prince featuring John Legend, and poetry readings by Ephraim Nehemiah, Darius Simpson and Twelve Literary Arts founder Daniel Gray-Kontar (pictured).

Tickets are $30; get them here.

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