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Since 1981, the Dallas Institute has created classes, groups, programs, and events that enrich and strengthen the cultural heart of our great city and bring the wisdom and imagination of the humanities into the lives of its residents.

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STUDENTS FREE!! MON, FEB 24

THE HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS IN AMERICA
Dr. Christopher Lebron returns to Dallas to share his stronger focus on James Baldwin and the uses and misuses of the American racial imagination and how a more honest reckoning with what we fail to imagine might help us achieve the nation so many of us imagine is possible.
6:30 – 8:00pm
Reception 6:00pm