A Community Conversation: The Power of Public Monuments in a Time of Racial Reckoning Monday, August 24, 2020 6:00 pm -7:30 pm As calls for the removal of public monuments intensify, what questions should we be asking of ourselves? What impact will today's decisions have on our national memory, identity, and drive to shape a more just and equitable way forward? SAVE THE DATE! Register at shaw54thmemorialrestoration.org Renée Ater Associate Professor Emerita of American Art at University of Maryland and Visiting Professor, Brown University. David W. Blight Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Karen Holmes Ward WCVB Director of Public Affoirs and Host of "Cityline." Moderator Media Spomers Sponsored by Portnership to Renew the Shaw Sm Memeriat Banner THE BAY STATE NATIONAL SERVICE FRIENDS B, PUBLIC GARDEN WCVB 5. Museum of African American History tn Ne et BOSTON'S NEWS LEADER CITYOSTON A Community Conversation: The Power of Public Monuments in a Time of Racial Reckoning Monday, August 24, 2020 6:00 pm -7:30 pm As calls for the removal of public monuments intensify, what questions should we be asking of ourselves? What impact will today's decisions have on our national memory, identity, and drive to shape a more just and equitable way forward? SAVE THE DATE! Register at shaw54thmemorialrestoration.org Renée Ater Associate Professor Emerita of American Art at University of Maryland and Visiting Professor, Brown University. David W. Blight Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Karen Holmes Ward WCVB Director of Public Affoirs and Host of "Cityline." Moderator Media Spomers Sponsored by Portnership to Renew the Shaw Sm Memeriat Banner THE BAY STATE NATIONAL SERVICE FRIENDS B, PUBLIC GARDEN WCVB 5. Museum of African American History tn Ne et BOSTON'S NEWS LEADER CITYOSTON