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Speakers

Nate Parker

Nate Parker is an award-winning actor, writer, director and producer, who has played lead characters in films including Beyond The Lights, Red Tails, The Secret Life of Bees, Arbitrage, and Pride.

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Talitha LeFlouria

Talitha LeFlouria is the Lisa Smith Discovery Associate Professor in African and African-American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is a scholar of African American history, and the author of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South.

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Reginald Dwayne Betts

Reginald Dwayne Betts is the author of three collections of poetry and a memoir. Felon, his latest collection of poetry, will be published in October 2019 by W.W. Norton. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School.

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