E Pluribus Unum is an initiative created to fulfill America's promise of justice and opportunity for all by breaking down the barriers that divide us by race and class. In its first year, the E Pluribus Unum team traveled extensively across the American South to uncover and confront the challenges we face, to learn from people about what separates us and what can bring us together, and to find bold and effective solutions to tackle the modern legacy of Jim Crow so that an inclusive new South may be born.
Incubated at Emerson Collective and led by former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, the E Pluribus Unum team is building a series of programs and initiatives to cultivate courageous leaders who are committed to realizing an inclusive vision a new South, champion transformative policies to reverse the enduring harms of America’s Jim Crow era past for those who continue to experience them today, and change narratives that perpetuate systemic and interpersonal racism in order to shift people’s attitudes and behaviors.
Join us for the first in a multi-part series of virtual conversations that bring together our country’s greatest thinkers, activists and leaders on race and equity. We seek to use this moment to confront the systems that have divided us for generations.
We will explore how to leverage this moment in history to make lasting change.
In this first conversation, historians and experts will explore the “truth” in our history. They will discuss some of the periods and events in our history that have laid the foundation for the systems that continue to perpetuate racism and oppress people of color in the U.S, including the Civil War, Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era.
The focus of the series will be truth, action and reconciliation--ultimately, putting forward a vision for essential systemic reforms to shape long-term change, with the value of racial and economic equity at its core.
For more information on the series, visit unumfund.org/conversations.
THE TRUTH SERIES: How We Got Here
The Price We Have Paid
Thursday, July 9
2:30 pm ET/1:30 pm CT
Moderated by Drew Gilpin Faust
President Emerita, Harvard University, the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor,
and Historian of the Civil War and the American South
Dr. Temika Simmons
Director, Local Government Leadership Institute at Delta State University
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies
and Chair of the Center for African American Studies and Chair of the Department of African American Studies
Princeton University
Questions? Contact us at info@unumfund.org
For more information on the series visit unumfund.org/conversations
