Rutgers-Camden to host discussion on 'Black Lives Matter'

CAMDEN Rutgers-Camden will host a panel discussion exploring the Black Lives Matter movement with a focus on New Jersey and its surrounding areas.

Free and open to the public, the two-hour event begins at 6 p.m. Nov. 18, in the 401 Penn classroom, which is accessible from the side of the Paul Robeson Library on campus.

Among the themes will be antiblack racism in New Jersey and how to rework discriminatory practices and policies, according to a news statement from Rutgers-Camden.

Rutgers-Camden's Africana Studies program is cohosting the discussion along with the Lawnside Historical Society. Program director Keith Green will moderate the discussion.

"The tragic deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and Samuel Dubose invite a continuing conversation about the status of black lives, and particularly black males, in America," he said in a statement.

"The complicated contexts of their murders warrant a discussion of the role of law enforcement and the judicial system in the maintenance of racial privilege and the fight for equal rights."

Panelists include lawyers and civil rights leaders Lloyd D. Henderson, president of the Camden County East NAACP; Stanley King and Sharon King, lawyers with King & King Law; Troy Bratten, an officer with the Camden County Department of Corrections; Milton Hinton, past president of the Gloucester County NAACP; Peter Rogers, a sergeant in the Camden County Police Department; and the Rev. James Dunkins, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Port Norris and Vineland. - Inquirer staff