Update 10/17/22 –
Here is a recording of the event – https://santaclarauniversity.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=48416a41-cfa4-452f-bf15-af1d0120367c

Please join us for this timely event on the critical topic of reparations for African Americans. The inspiring speakers include Kamilah Moore, Chair of the California Task Force, Don Tamaki, a member of the Task Force, and Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor, Commissioner, National African American Reparations Commission.

Sponsored by the SCU Law Center for Social Justice and Public Service, Katharine and George Alexander Community Law Center, Black Law Students Association, and Office of the Dean, and by the University Office for Diversity and Inclusion.

3.75 hours of California State Bar MCLE credit awarded to in-person attendees, including 1.0 hours in the area of implicit bias.

October 14, 2022, 1 – 5 p.m., followed by a reception
St. Clare Room, University Library, Santa Clara University

Event Registration Link

Symposium Program

PROGRAM
12:30 – 1
Registration
1:00 – 1:15
Welcome and Introductions 
Dean Michael Kaufman.

1:15 – 2:30
Framing the issue: the concept of reparations and their historical necessity.
Speakers:

• Kamilah Moore, Chair, California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans
• Prof. Harry Odamtten, Santa Clara University
• Terrance Evans, President, Charles Houston Bar Association
• Moderator: Prof. Margalynne Armstrong, Santa Clara Law

2:30 – 2:45 Break

2:45 – 3:45
The work of the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans. This could cover the Task Force’s initial report and preliminary findings and recommendations, and what remains to be done., and the sorts of forms of reparation that are being considered.
Speaker:

• Kamilah Moore, Chair, California Task Force to Study
  and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans.
• Moderator: Leah Lambert, Kyle Perkins, SCU Law Students

3:45 – 5:00

The broader context: forms of redress, examples of reparations programs, H.R. 40.
Speakers:

• Don Tamaki, Member, California Task Force to Study
  and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans
• James Woodson, Executive Director, Black Power Network
• Prof. Roy Brooks, Univ. of San Diego School of Law.
• Dr. Joanna Thompson, Director, Multi-Cultural Learning, SCU.
• Dr. Ron Daniels, Convenor, National African-American Reparations Commission
• Moderator: Prof. Deborah Moss-West, Santa Clara Law.

5:00 – 6:00

Please join us for a reception