“Why Dismantling Racism is Central to Democracy” will be held Tuesday, March 14, 4 p.m., at 6191 Helen C. White on the UW-Madison campus.
The speaker will be Jamala Rogers, an award-winning community activist and author with more than four decades of experience organizing for racial justice and gender equity. During the 1970s, she helped found the St. Louis Chapter of the Congress of African People and was involved in the African Liberation Support Committee and the National Black Political Assembly. She is a founder and past chair of the Organization for Black Struggle, which was established in St. Louis in 1980 to work on issues related to repression, electoral politics, youth, education and the cultural arts. S
