Robert J. Doherty Lecture with Douglas A. Blackmon: What Comes Next?

Join us for the fourth annual Robert J. Doherty Memorial Lecture, "What Comes Next? Redefining Police Power, Restoring Personal Freedom, and Rebuilding Faith in American Democracy with Douglas A. Blackmon.

Douglas A. Blackmon  is a distinguished journalist, scholar, filmmaker, and

the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-

Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. His book

revealed how a system of enslavement of African-Americans was resurrected

after the Civil War and persisted deep into the 20th century. Blackmon was

also co-executive producer of the acclaimed documentary film based on

Slavery by Another Name, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in

2012, attracted more than five million viewers in its first broadcasts on PBS,

and continues to be regularly rebroadcast on public television across the U.S.

Blackmon wrote and co-directed The Harvest, a documentary examining

public school integration and the consequences, 50 years later, of America’s

failure to replace segregation with diverse, shared educational experiences

across our society. He also directs the Narrating Justice Project at Georgia

State University in Atlanta. Previously, he was a member of the faculty at the

University of Virginia's Miller Center and hosted more than 200 episodes of

the nationally broadcast public television discussion program American

Forum.

Blackmon was an award-winning senior national correspondent and bureau

chief for many years at The Wall Street Journal, and a member of reporting

teams which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 and were finalists for a Pulitzer in

2011. He is also co-author of a forthcoming book with former U.S. Attorney

General Eric H. Holder.

Blackmon’s work in journalism began with an article published in the local

newspaper when he was 12 years old. Over the span of his career, he has

witnessed and written about many of the most important events of our time,

including the fall of the Berlin Wall, multiple U.S. presidential elections, post-

Apartheid South Africa, war crimes during the civil war in the former

Yugoslavia, natural disasters including Hurricane Katrina, and man-made

catastrophes such as mass incarceration and America’s ongoing crisis of

racial inequity.

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