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The 2018 Robert H. Kirschner, MD Memorial Human Rights Lecture was delivered by Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University. Titled after her 2016 bestselling book, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, the lecture traced the history of racial injustice in America and its relationship to retaliatory violence. "[After Ferguson] I set out... to figure out how white rage works over time,” Professor Anderson said, “black people who aspire, black people who achieve, black people who refuse to accept their subjugation, black people who demand their rights... that's the trigger for white rage.” While covering a range of issues including education inequity, broken windows policing, and the war on drugs, Anderson tuned her message to the contemporary political moment with an analysis of voter suppression and demographics in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Anderson’s most recent book, One Person, No Vote, was nominated for a 2018 National Book Award. We are thrilled that she will return to Chicago as a Pozen Visiting Professor in Spring 2019.