Charles L. Chavis
Founding Director, John Mitchell, Jr. Program for History, Justice, & Race, The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution; Assistant Professor of History and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University
2023
Dr. Charles L. Chavis, Jr. is the author of the award winning book, The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State (Johns Hopkins University Press; January 2022) which investigates and reconstructs the full story of one of the last lynchings in Maryland. Dr. Chavis is National Co-Chair for the United States Truth Racial Healing and Transformation Movement and Vice Chair of the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He also serves on the PBS’s (WNET) Exploring Hate Advisory Committee.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
