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
Social Activism
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,
16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas.
From an article by Tyler S. Olkowski, for The Crimson: Nearly half of the Harvard Law School student body signed an open letter to President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder in the wake of recent grand jury decisions
From Amnesty International (includes a link): . . . The recent spate of incidents of lethal force used against men of color by law enforcement from New York to Los Angeles has once again demonstrated the need to take a
From Dig Boston: Rebecca Chapman, HLS ’15, who went to Ferguson in October, notes that, “despite what we are taught in law school, the law is not neutral; lawyers and law students have a unique perspective on the reality that