What I Want My Words to Do You Screening and Discussion
What I Want My Words to Do You A part of the What is Justice? Film Series Join us for a screening of What I Want My Words To Do You, a film that brings us into the minds and
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Judging Science: The Historian, the Courts, & Discerning Responsibility for Environmental Pollution
Over the past twenty years a vast public negotiation has taken place over the causes of, and responsibility for, disease. For the most part this discussion has flown under the radar of doctors, historians and public health professionals. To the
Education is Transformation!
Education is Transformation! Listening to the Voices of Justice-Involved Students Changing lives, developing leaders, building communities Half-Day Symposium Where: Columbia Law School, Case Lounge, 435 W. 116th Street, New York, NY 10027 Date: Friday, October 17, 2014 Time: 12pm-4pm RSVP
Dan Hoyle’s “Each and Every Thing”
“Each and Every Thing” is the newest solo show from award-winning actor/playwright Dan Hoyle about how we experience the world in the digital age. From a showdown with a violent person in small-town Nebraska, to a childhood listening to anti-conformist
Post-Racial Mythologies, Post Ferguson Realities
Post-Racial Mythologies, Post Ferguson Realities Event Date: Thursday, October 16, 2014 – 6:00pm – 8:00pm Location: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture – 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY 10037-1801 (917) 275-6975 Unfortunately, the August 9, 2014, the police shooting death
GENDER & JUSTICE: SARAH HALEY ON “PUNISHING THE BLACK FEMALE BODY: GENDER AND IMPRISONMENT IN THE JIM CROW SOUTH”
The Columbia Institute of Women, Gender and Sexuality present Gender & Justice, a series of events that focus on the idea of justice relating to men, women and current legal issues. Presented with the Columbia University Law School. We are
Envisioning Characters, Uncovering Issues: Youth Reading Through the Lens of Race
The Racial Literacy Roundtable presents an open discussion about race, language differences, and other important issues in in urban education with in-service and pre-service teachers and memebers of the Teacher College community. Facilitator: Sonja Cherry-Paul, Doctoral student – Curriculum &
Race in the Age of Digital Media: A Lecture by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“It’s very difficult to know that it doesn’t matter what morals you instill in your children,” she said. “That there are certain people who will never see the value and know who they are.” And yet African Americans raised in
Race, Policing, and Civil Rights: A Community Town Hall
This event, which mixes media, public dialogue, politics and arts, is the first in a series of town halls focused on exploring the community’s take on timely social issues. As the media storm over Eric Garner and Ferguson subsides, Brooklyn Independent
AMERICA’S PRISONS: CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT?
AMERICA’S PRISONS: CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT? A discussion with: Robert Ferguson Columbia Law School Author of Inferno: An Anatomy of American Punishment Cathleen Price Equal Justice Initiative Benjamin Rosenberg Office of the NY County District Attorney Free and open to the