Mitch Landrieu on Facing History

Demonstrators who supports keeping Confederate era monuments hold flags before the Jefferson Davis statue was taken down in New Orleans, Thursday, May 11, 2017.

Mitch Landrieu, mayor (D) of New Orleans and the author of In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History  (Viking, 2018), tells his story and how it can model the national conversation about America's history of racial injustice.

Mitch Landrieu will be in conversation with Jelani Cobb on Wednesday, March 21 at 7:30 pm at St. Joseph's College at 245 Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn.