The Institute for Common Power is hosting a panel discussion with three of the editors and contributors to the anthology, “Afterlife: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America.”

The panel, will discuss the impact of the Pandemic and the “Racial Reckoning “on everything from healthcare to the health of American democracy.

After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election. Inspired by the writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the editors asked twenty-first-century historians and legal experts to focus on the parallels, convergences, and differences between the exceptional “long 2020”, while it unfolds, and earlier eras in U.S. History.