On September 30, 2020, the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) held a discussion on race and racism moderated by SSRC president Alondra Nelson and Joy Connolly, president of ACLS, featuring Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, and director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project; and Bianca Williams, associate professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

This event is presented as part of the Social Science Research Council’s Inequality Initiative, a series of programs and projects that bring innovative social science analysis to bear on our understanding of the roots and consequences of unequal participation in political, economic, and social systems across the globe.