Let’s Talk Race and Racism (January)

The St. Louis Section of the American Chemical Society's Committee on Minority Affairs (CMA) has launched a new podcast listening series "Let’s Talk Race and Racism." The series is designed to engage ACS members and the broader St. Louis community at large around fostering togetherness, developing shared language, and building comfort and courage to better discuss race and racism. The goal is to help people understand how to take personal action to build their own race consciousness and to move toward a more diverse and inclusive local section in response to many national conversations such as #BlackoutSTEM and in response to the cries for justice for the loss of unarmed Black lives.

The January meeting is the last installment of the Let's Talk Race and Racism Podcast Listening Series that launched in fall 2020. In January, the group will discuss "Two Different Americas." On January 6, 2021 we could not help but see the capital riot as all the images flooded our screens. These images in some ways differed very drastically from what we have seen over the last five years in sociopolitical and economic movement of Black Lives Matter and other movements brought forth by people of color. How do we bridge the divide of these two very different responses and realities, what is our responsibility as citizens, and how do we start to drive change? Join STL ACS for this last critical talk and learn what else they have planned for the rest of the 2021 programming.

Register here.