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Please join us on Zoom for a special Race Against Hate…in place edition of Let’s Talk @ Lunch, an informal facilitated discussion of current events through a racial equity lens. We’ll discuss Ahmaud Arbery, the connection to Ricky Byrdsong, and what it feels like to be a Black man out for a run.
This is a free event and anyone 17 years and older is welcome. Registration is required so we can send you the link to join discussion.
Join Sherialyn Byrdsong, YWCA Evanston/North Shore President/CEO, Karen Singer, the Director of YWCA’s Equity Institute, Tiffany McDowell and Lyle Q. Foster, longtime Byrdsong family friend and Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Missouri State University for a Zoom discussion of critical issues challenging our communities. Together they will examine racial health disparities unmasked by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ahmaud Arbery case and how it echoes Ricky Byrdsong’s murder and imagine action that we might all take to move our country toward greater equity and inclusion.
This is a free event and anyone 17 years and older is welcome. Registration is required so we can send you the link to join discussion.