#SummerSyllabus2015: #RaceMatters--A Panel Discussion at Duke University on 8/31

#SummerSyllabus2015: #RaceMattersMonday, August 31, 2015 @ 7:00 pmDuke University (East Campus)White Lecture Hall 

A faculty panel discussion on the numerous race-related incidents that occurred this summer; moderated by NPR host Frank Stasio
Inspired by the #CharlestonSyllabus hashtag that circulated in the aftermath of the shooting death of 9 African-American parishioners in Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME Church, several Duke University faculty will participate in a panel discussion to help educate and reveal the nuances of race in America.
The discussion, #SummerSyllabus2015: #RaceMatters, will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 31 in White Lecture Hall on Duke’s East Campus. It will feature professors Kerry Haynie (Political Science), Karla F.C. Holloway (English) and Mark Anthony Neal (African & African American Studies) in open dialogue about the steady stream of racial incidents that defined summer 2015.
The faculty will address topics such as:the Charleston shootingthe Confederate flag debateSandra Bland’s death in police custodythe police killing of Samuel DeBosethe #BlackLivesMatter movementthe role of #BlackTwitterauthor Ta-Nehisi Coates’ latest bookthe noose hanging on the Duke University quadand the spectacle of Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP Spokane chapter president who lied about her race.  
The conversation will be moderated by Frank Stasio, host of WUNC’s signature program “The State of Things.” For those unable to attend, the event will be recorded and posted online.
The event is the first hosted by the Duke Councils on Race and Ethnicity (DCORE), co-directed by Professors Haynie and Neal.