FBA Presents The Past is Not Past: Recognizing, Remembering, and Redressing Domestic Terrorism in the United States

Baton Rouge associate Michael Victorian will moderate the webinar "The Past is Not Past: Recognizing, Remembering, and Redressing Domestic Terrorism in the United States," a Juneteenth commemoration presented by the Federal Bar Association. In this presentation, Professor Paula C. Johnson, Director, Cold Case Justice Initiative (CCJI) for the Syracuse University College of Law will cover the following topics:

• • Historical background from the pre- and post-Civil War eras and contemporary resonances stemming from the origin of Juneteenth and its present-day meanings
  • Examples of racially motivated massacres of Black communities across eras from Rosewood, FL, Tulsa, OK, Wilmington, NC, Charleston, SC, and Buffalo, NY, in an interdisciplinary focus that includes historical, legal, racial, and intersectional analysis
  • Imperatives for effective legal, educational, and societal responses to redress and prevent the persistent plague of racial violence in the United States