Marc Lamont Hill & Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - Dismantling the System

Program Title: Marc Lamont Hill & Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - Dismantling the System
Description: Is it starry-eyed to think system change? The calamitous fissures that the current crisis has exposed raises the question of the efficacy of reform, half-measures and tinkering around the edges. Often, even under duress, the system is agile enough to make some concessions while crucially leaving the fundamental structures of power intact. From the outside systems can look invincible and impregnable. Just tell that to Louis the XVI in 1789 or the Czar in 1917 or the Shah of Iran in 1979 or Hosni Mubarak in 2011. The noted writer, Ursula LeGuin reminds us, “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.”

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Featured Speakers/Guests: Marc Lamont Hill is professor of Media Studies and Urban Education at Temple University. Ebony named him one of America’s 100 most influential Black leaders. He is the author of Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her articles appear in The New York Times, CounterPunch, Jacobin and The Guardian. She is the author of From Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation.

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Topic: Politics Type: Speech/Presentation

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