Friends Program: “Racism in Boston: How Far Have We Come?” A Lecture by Dr. Ted Landsmark

**Date Change - Now on February 23, 2025 @ 2:00 PM**

Noted Bostonian Dr. Theodore Landsmark will deliver a talk about Boston’s landscape of equity and inclusion, and how it has changed – for better and worse – over the years. 

Dr. Landsmark is the Director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. He is an educator, lawyer and civil rights advocate with decades-long work in environmental design, urban policy and planning.

Dr. Landsmark arrived in Boston as a young black professional during the tumultuous Boston busing crisis. In 1976, he was famously attacked on Boston City Hall Plaza by a white teenager wielding an American flagpole as a weapon, a notorious incident captured by a Pulitzer prize-winning news photographer. Dr. Landsmark will share his observations on how life for Black Bostonians has evolved since that time, as both a social space and a physical environment.

This Program is sponsored by the Friends of the Needham Public Library. Registration is required, as we have a current capacity limit of 108. 

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