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Dr. Janet Dewart Bell and Kendall Thomas in Conversation: Race, Rights, and Redemption

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Dr. Janet Dewart Bell, author of Carving Out a Humanity: Race, Rights, and Redemption and Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement, and Kendall Thomas, Nash Professor of Law and the Director of the Studio for Law and Culture at Columbia University, discuss the intersection of race and law in the United States and the role that the law has played in shaping our society.