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Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC), Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library (CHPL), the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, and the Woman’s City Club of Cincinnati will host
The panels aim to gather journalists, activists, leaders and academics to talk about what we've learned, forgotten, and ways to move forward. That includes looking at the civil unrest following Thomas' death and the current Black Lives Matter movement.
Eric R. Jackson, Ed.D. is a professor of history and director of the Black Studies Program at Northern Kentucky University. He's one of the panelists for the first event on Thursday.
"We have made progress on some levels when it comes to, particularly in Cincinnati, the Collaborative Agreement between the community folks and law enforcement," he says. "It has been a model for other cities and other municipalities to, if they choose, use it as a model to improve race relations."