Prof. Tanya Hernández, Fulbright Scholar and director of the Fordham Law Center on Race, Law, and Justice, to deliver a lecture followed by audience Q&A on her new book, Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias. Organized by the Progressive Law Society.
Georgetown launches Racial Justice Institute
Georgetown’s first university-wide racial justice effort, the Racial Justice Institute (RJI) will come into effect four years after the university committed to its creation.
The new institute, officially launched in a community-wide email on Feb. 22 by University President John DeGioia, will address issues of racial injustice and inequality across university disciplines. The RJI is intended to serve as a meeting place for activists and scholars to address the history of racial discrimination and oppression and promote the well-being of BIPOC.
The concept for the RJI was born in 2016 as part of Georgetown’s effort to address its own history with slavery. In February of that year, DeGioia committed Georgetown to establishing some form of the RJI, which was partially formulated by a Racial Justice Working Group composed of faculty, staff, and students. A second committee of faculty in 2019 identified the four areas of focus for th