(MEMPHIS, TN – October 16, 2023) Zócalo Public Square will host a virtual panel discussion entitled “How Does Confronting Our History Build a Better Future?” on Friday, October 27, 2023 at 9:00 p.m. CST.
The live panel discussion is the conclusion of a two-year editorial and four-part series entitled “How Should Societies Remember Their Sins?” Supported by the Mellon Foundation and blending scholarly essays and personal stories, the series explores how societies around the world collectively remember their transgressions and make attempts at repair, and how we might imagine new paths forward.
In August 2023, Zócalo Public Square partnered with the National Civil Rights Museum to host part three of the series entitled “Why Isn’t Remembering Enough to Repair?” during the conversation, the panelists discussed what repair looks like and how different people and places have stumbled and succeeded in their pursuit.
On October 27, environmental activist and hip-hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez (Xochimilco), L.A. LGBT Center communications officer and former editor-in-chief of Out Magazine Phillip Picardi and “On Being” founder, executive producer and host Krista Tippett will discuss how society might draw strength and coax vision from the shortcomings and failures of its collective past. The discussion will be moderated by William Sturkey, University of North Carolina Historian and author of Hattiesburg.
After the panel discussion, there will be a special musical performance by the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arktet.
Visit www.zocalopublicsquare.org/event/does-confronting-our-history-build-a-better-future to RSVP for the event.
About Zócalo Public Square:
Founded in Los Angeles in 2003, Zócalo Public Square is an ASU Media Enterprise. Zócalo Public Square connects people to ideas and to each other by examining essential questions in an accessible, broad-minded, and democratic spirit. We pursue our mission by convening events and by publishing ideas journalism. We syndicate our journalism to 290 media outlets worldwide and have hosted more than 600 events in 33 cities in the U.S. and beyond, including New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, Shanghai, Guadalajara, London, Berlin, and now streaming online.
For more information or if you would like to interview someone about the panel discussion, contact Jennifer Sharp, The Carter Malone Group, LLC, at 901.278.0881 or jsharp@cmgpr.com.