09 Feb Black History Month Series: What the Game of Monopoly Teaches us about Race and Housing in America Black History Month Series: What the Game of Monopoly Teaches us about Race and Housing in America Tuesday, February 9, 2021 (10:00 AM to 11:00 AM) Zoom FREE: Zoom Link Information will be sent via your registration confirmation email Details You're Registered! DescriptionLocationInstructors This important interactive presentation will help explain why Black people are pessimistic about the future of race relations in America. We will examine how racial attitudes and practices of the past such as housing discrimination, impact and frame the present. This presentation will engaging, energetic and educational and we can't wait to see you there. Zoom Zoomzoom link will be sent out via email the morning of the event Map & Directions Dr. Leonard Moore Leonard N. Moore is currently the George Littlefield Professor of American History and the former vice-president of diversity and community engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. In his former role as vice-president he managed more than 400 employees, 50 units and programs, 400 community partners, with an annual budget of more than $50 million dollars. He is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, who earned his BA from Jackson State University in 1993 and his PhD from the Ohio State University in 1998. From 1998-2007 he served as a professor and administrator at Louisiana State University and he has been at the University of Texas at Austin since 2007. Inside the classroom Dr. Moore teaches more than 1,000 undergraduate students in the fall semester in his two classes: History of The Black Power Movement and Race in the Age of Trump. Dr. Moore also directs summer programs in Beijing, China, and Cape Town, South Africa, and in Dubai. As a scholar Professor Moore is the author of three books on black politics and his fourth book, Teaching Black History to White People, will be published this spring. He is married to Thais Bass-Moore and they have three teenage children.