The first installment in our winter series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks features Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; professor of history, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and chair, Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery. Dean Brown-Nagin’s most recent book, Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality (Pantheon, 2022), was released on January 25, 2022. Her reading is followed by a discussion with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. The event also includes audience Q and A moderated by Jelani Hayes, doctoral student in history and advisee of Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Harvard University, and JD candidate, Yale Law School. For information about Harvard Radcliffe Institute and its many public programs, visit https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RadcliffeInstitute Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/radcliffe.institute LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/radcliffe-institute Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RadInstitute 0:00 Introduction 4:16 Reading by Tomiko Brown-Nagin 9:53 Discussion with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 39:07 Audience Q&A