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Lectures & Talks

Perspectives on Black-Jewish Relations in the Fight for Civil Rights

Tuesday, December 5, 2023 7:00 PM
  • Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Brentwood
Free with RSVP
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Professor Bernard Lafayette gestures with his left hand to make a point on stage while holding a microphone in the other.
Professor Bernard Lafayette speaks onstage during a documentary screening of 'Passing The Torch From Selma To Today' at Skirball Cultural Center in 2018.
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The Skirball’s Howard I. Friedman Memorial Lecture takes place on the 68th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Hear from Rev. Dr. Bernard Lafayette Jr. and Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky who consider the relationship of Jewish values to the establishment and defense of civil liberties. The fireside chat is inspired by the Skirball’s current exhibition This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement. This year’s Howard I. Friedman Memorial Graduate Essay Prize winner and the lecture both explore the relationship between Black and Jewish communities.