Moderated by Professor Dorothy Roberts with Director Myah Overstreet
Apr 12, 2024
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| Jon M. Huntsman Hall Rm G65
Please join the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society (PRSS) as we host the screening of the documentary TO BE INVISIBLE, produced by journalist, filmmaker, and UC Berkeley graduate student Myah Overstreet…
Discover the story of Mercy-Douglass Hospital, created by and for the Black community in Philadelphia. Founded in 1895, Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital, and Mercy Hospital, founded in 1907, merged to form…
Nov 29, 2023
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| Max Kade Center: 3401 Walnut Street, Room 329-A
This talk aims to explore the profound impact of First Nations child removal, family policing, and intergenerational trauma on the sovereignty of Indigenous communities within the Australian context.
Nov 20, 2023
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| Fitts Auditorium Carey Law School
Professor Sir Hilary Beckles is Vice Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI). He is a distinguished academic, international thought leader, United Nations committee official, and global public…
Apr 24, 2023
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| Penn Hillel Auditorium, 2nd Floor
215 S39th Street
On Monday, April 24, Alan Dettlaff, Professor of Social Work at the University of Houston will speak on racism, child welfare, and the enduring promise of abolition. PRSS Director and author of Torn Apart,…
Oct 16, 2019
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| 418 Curie Boulevard, Floor 4, Room 435
PRSS Postdoctoral Fellow Ezelle Sanford recounts the social, political, economic, and professional alignments which made segregated health care and medical training possible in St. Louis, MO-based upon his…
PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts will give a keynote lecture for Penn Medicine's Health Equity Week. Her speech will be titled, "Mistreating Health Inequities in the Genomic Age."
