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An Evening With Lawrence Lanahan

PSU - Smith Memorial Student Union 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Author Lawrence Lanahan discusses The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore’s Racial Divide, a narrative chronicle of segregation and inequality in Freddie Gray’s Baltimore. In an era when politics are pushing Americans apart, Lawrence offers a sobering and thought-provoking reflection on how America might dismantle structural racism and white supremacy. OCTOBER 15, 2019  |  6:30PM Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 294 1825 SW Broadway  Portland, OR 97201 FREE ADMISSION The Lines Between Us is a riveting narrative that compels reflection on America’s entrenched inequality—and on where the rubber meets the road not in the abstract, but in our own backyards. Taking readers from church sermons to community meetings to public hearings to protests to the Supreme Court to the death…

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