From the Frontlines: Reflections on Decades of the Racial Justice Movement

On today’s episode of Justice Matters, co-host Mathias Risse talks with Gay McDougall, distinguished scholar in residence at Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham University School of Law and member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Professor McDougall has worked for decades on the frontlines of race, gender, and economic exploitation in the American context and in countries around the world. In this episode she discusses the function of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, her early years growing up in Jim Crow-era Georgia, working with Nelson Mandela, the impact of George Floyd’s murder, the Biden Administration’s policies on race, and what’s at stake in the upcoming 2024 US Presidential election.