Was Live Friday, Nov 27, 2023
Guest Speakers
- Deborah L. Mack, PhD, Smithsonian Director, Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past, Smithsonian Institution
- Leticia Rhi Buckley, CEO, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
- James Herr, Director, National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, Japanese American National Museum
- Michael Truong, Executive Director, Chinese American Museum
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Event Overview
“How can we reckon with a racial past if we don’t know it?” asks a veteran director of the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles. He will join three other speakers at EMS’s Zoom briefing on Nov. 27 to discuss a new Smithsonian Institution initiative called Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past. Together with cultural institutions and museums across the country, they will present a collaborative series of public programs between Dec. 1 – Dec. 17 to explore how race has transformed each of our lives, and how racist events and policies of the past connect to glaring inequities in our society today.
