The first installment in our winter series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks will feature Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; professor of history, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and chair, Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery. Dean Brown-Nagin’s most recent book, Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality (Pantheon, 2022), will be released on January 25, 2022.

Her reading will be followed by a discussion with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

The event will also include audience Q and A.