In honor of Black History Month the Ventura County Library and the Southern California Library Cooperative are continuing their Be the Change Series with author Richard Rothstein.
On Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 6:30 p.m., Richard Rothstein will discuss his book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America. The Color of Law expands upon and provides a national perspective on his recent work that has documented the history of state-sponsored residential segregation. Richard Rothstein argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America—the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities and has contributed to so much recent social strife—is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal level.
A former columnist for the New York Times and a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, as well as a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Rothstein has spent years documenting the evidence that government not merely ignored discriminatory practices in the residential sphere, but promoted them. The impact has been devastating for generations of African-Americans who were denied the right to live where they wanted to live, and raise and school their children where they thought best.
The Color of Law expands upon and provides a national perspective on Rothstein’s recent work that has documented the history of state-sponsored residential segregation.
Find more information and register for this virtual event here. See the Be the Change Series website for updates, online exhibits, and other programming. This series is sponsored by the City of Glendale Arts and Culture Commission.
The Be the Change series takes place in conjunction with such commemorations as Native American Heritage Month, Black History Month, Armenian Genocide Remembrance, Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month, and LGBTQ+ Pride. The series will also examine the one-year anniversary of the 2020 racial justice protests and 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. The series will include virtual lectures, exhibits, and online programming from authors, curators, and historians.
The series is brought to you by the Ventura County Library in partnership with the Southern California Library Cooperative and Outlook Newspapers. The series is led by Glendale Library, Arts & Culture and sponsored by the City of Glendale Arts and Culture Commission, with funding from the City of Glendale Urban Art Fund.
For more information please call Library information at 818-548-2021 or email Library staff at LibraryInfo@GlendaleCA.gov. The Library website is www.eGlendaleLAC.org.
