Lectures on Tap - "When Protest Was Called a Disease: Race & Health Equity"

Schedule

Wed May 20 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Prospect Park South | Brooklyn, NY

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đź§  Lecture: "When Protest Was Called a Disease: Race & Health Equity"

🎤 Speaker: Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl


Join us for a powerful evening as Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl—physician, sociologist, and bestselling author—examines how race, medicine, and power collided during the civil rights era, and what that history means for health equity today.


Drawing on his acclaimed book The Protest Psychosis, Dr. Metzl traces how political protest was recast as mental illness and how Black men were systematically overdiagnosed with schizophrenia in the 1960s. He connects this troubling past to present-day debates about equity, sanity, and health, exploring how institutions respond to social change and how calls for justice are too often reframed as threats.


Highlighting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s enduring vision of community, solidarity, and shared responsibility, Dr. Metzl invites us to think more clearly about today’s struggles over equity, community, and care. He argues that confronting uncomfortable histories is essential to building more just institutions now.


Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌


Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.

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Prospect Park South, Prospect Park South, Brooklyn, United States

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