Powerful piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates on America and black bodies: When Abraham Lincoln declared, in 1863, that the battle of Gettysburg must ensure “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth,”
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From Harvard Law Today: Mandating that police wear body-worn cameras can help to improve relations between police and communities, and ensure greater accountability for police actions. But these requirements must be carefully and thoughtfully implemented within a much wider set
From the Boston Globe, an op-ed by SJP friends David Harris and Johanna Wald (Managing Director and Director of Strategic Planning and Development of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice) : On June 5, 1947, Secretary of
Alec Karakatsanis (one our SJP advisers) has just published an article on the the Harvard Law Review Forum (pdf here). It’s a powerful piece, and you’ll want to read it all. Here’s the opening paragraph: It did not surprise me
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At today’s Black Lives Matter Conference events at Harvard Law School, Naomi Murakawa gave an amazing keynote based on her new book, ‘”The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America,” which, based on her lecture, we highly recommend. In
Saturday’s Agenda: Location: Wasserstein Hall, Harvard Law School 9am-9:45am Continental Breakfast 10am-5pm Panel Discussions 10am-11:15am Black Health Matters 11:15am-11:30am Snacks 11:30am-12:45pm Black Activism Matters 1pm-2pm Lunch Keynote Speaker: Dr. Naomi Murakawa, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and Author
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX_Vzl-r8NY] At the conclusion of her tremendous keynote presentation on Friday, Kim Crenshaw shared the above video (an animated film for the African American Policy Forum), as an example of one of the ways that she and her collaborators have
Divest Harvard is currently staging a sit-in in Harvard’s Administration building in Mass Hall. Here is the Boston Globe coverage and here is the statement from Divest Harvard. There are extremely strong resonances with the event that just happened, announced in the previous blog post,
Kimberlé Crenshaw will lead a symposium about race, legal education and justice in the wake of the events in Ferguson. The even is sponsored and organized by Harvard Students for Inclusion and co-sponsored by La Alianza, APALSA, BLSA, MLSA, NLG,