Racial justice and Asian-Black solidarity: A much-needed conversation among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans

Asian and Black civil rights histories are intertwined. Yet widespread outrage about the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and other Black lives has also prompted difficult conversations in Asian and Pacific Islander communities about racial justice, police accountability, and our role. How can Asian and Pacific Islander Americans build solidarity with Black Americans and confront our country’s history and legacy of anti-Black racism and white supremacy?   

Please join us for a discussion with API community leaders and lawyers to discuss law and organizing approaches to addressing structural racism and inequality and how we can build Asian-Black solidarity and support systemic change and accountability.   

Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 6-7pm. via Zoom. Please register on this page, in the Registration section, by June 15, and the Zoom codes will be sent to you on the morning of June 16.

Speakers:

Jennifer Ching, Executive Director, North Star Fund

Jin Hee Lee, Senior Deputy Director of Litigation, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund

Jason Wu, Attorney, Legal Aid Society of New York

Jo-Ann Yoo, Executive Director, Asian American Federation 

Organized by:

LGBT Committee, AABANY

Co-Sponsors

Government Service & Public Interest Committee, AABANY

Litigation Committee, AABANY

Young Lawyers Committee, AABANY

Muslim Bar Association of New York 

NQAPIA

South Asian Bar Association of New York