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Bernadette Atuahene

About the Author

Bernadette Atuahene is a Harvard and Yale-trained property law scholar whose work focuses on land and homes stolen from Black people. She currently holds the Duggan Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Atuahene has served as a judicial clerk at the South African Constitutional Court, worked as a consultant for the South African Land Claims Commission, and practiced at a global law firm called Cleary Gottlieb. She is the author of We Want What’s Ours: Learning from South Africa’s Land Restitution Program, and she directed and produced an award-winning short documentary film about one South African family’s struggle to regain their land. Atuahene has won several accolades and has published extensively in both academic journals such as the California Law Review and NYU Law Review as well as news outlets such as the New York Times and LA Times.

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Events

January 2025

  • Detroit, MI (Sold Out)

    Special Guests: Orlando Bailey, Emmy award winning journalist and Executive Director of Outlier Media

    Detroit Mercy Law School

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February 2025

  • Chicago, IL

    Special Guest: Reuben Miller, MacArthur Genius fellow and author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

    Women and Children First Bookstore

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  • Boston, MA

    Special Guest: Patricia J. Williams, MacArthur Genius fellow and author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights

    Harvard University Bookstore

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  • Atlanta, GA

    Auburn Ave. Research Library

  • Milwaukee, WI

    Boswell Book Company

  • Madison, WI

    Grace Episcopal Church

  • New Haven, CT

    Special Guest(s): Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, Founder of the Poor People’s Movement; and Prof. James Foreman Jr., 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner

    Yale University Divinity School

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  • Detroit, MI

    Event Host: Twisted Storytellers hosted by Satori Shakoor

    Southfield Parks & Recreation

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March 2025

  • Baltimore, MD

    Special Guest: Lawrence T. Brown, author of The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America.

    Baltimore Public Library

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  • Washington DC

    Politics and Prose at the Wharf

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  • Coral Gables, FL

    Books & Books

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April 2025

  • Ann Arbor, MI

    Literati Bookstore

May 2025

  • Detroit, MI

    Special Guest: Stephen Henderson, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist

    Detroit Public Library Main Branch

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