Dissent and Disagreement

Panelists:

Professor Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, a professor of history, and a professor at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She is a legal and cultural historian whose work examines how black Americans have shaped the story of American democracy. Jones is the author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All (2020), selected as one of Time’s 100 must-read books for 2020.

Mame-Fatou Niang is an associate professor of French and francophone studies at Carnegie Mellon University. She is also author of Identités Françaises and co-author of a photo series on Black French Islam. She is currently working on a second manuscript tentatively titled Mosaica Nigra: Blackness in 21st-century France. She has collaborated with Slate, Jacobin, and several news outlets in France.

Suzanne Nossel is CEO of PEN America and author of Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All. Prior to joining PEN America, she served as the COO of Human Rights Watch and as executive director of Amnesty International USA. She is a featured columnist for Foreign Policy magazine and has published op-eds in The New York Times, Washington Post, and LA Times, as well as scholarly articles in Foreign Affairs, Dissent, and Democracy, among others.

Dahlia Lithwick, moderator, is a senior editor at Slate, and in that capacity, has been writing their “Supreme Court Dispatches” and “Jurisprudence” columns since 1999. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Commentary, among other places. She is host of Amicus, Slate’s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law and the Supreme Court.