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-31 posts tagged "Civil Rights"
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Friday, January 20, 2017
A year ago, Russell Lovell, professor emeritus at Drake Law School, got a call from Benny Anders, the president of the Iowa-Nebraska chapter of the NAACP. Anders joked that now that Lovell was retired, he was now going to be working full time for the NAACP after years of being a volunteer civil rights lawyer.
Nora McGreevy | Monday, November 21, 2016
Numbers play an important role in Ava DuVernay’s new documentary “13th,” which premiered on the opening night of the New York Film Festival and was released on Netflix Oct 7. The first words of the film, lifted from a speech President Obama gave to the NAACP in 2015, underscore this fact. “So let’s look at the
Rachel O'Grady | Tuesday, November 1, 2016
In his experience with civil rights law, lawyer Bill Goodman has worked with a number of clients who have been the victims of police misconduct. “You can force government to answer for what they do wrong, and what is unjust, and you can force people in power to answer for what they do wrong as
Liam Stewart | Monday, October 31, 2016
Students at the University of California, Berkeley held a protest Oct. 21 to advocate for the creation of “safe spaces” segregated by race and gender identity. The protest erupted after Berkeley’s administration made the decision to move a “safe space” from the fifth floor to the basement level of a building on campus. In response, a
J.P. Gschwind | Friday, August 28, 2015
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos has named Notre Dame Law School professor Douglass Cassel as a legal adviser and negotiator in the ongoing peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). According to a University press release, Cassel will serve in a six-person bilateral group tasked with developing a process
J.P. Gschwind | Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Claremont McKenna professor and former federal government administrator Mark Blitz explored the question, “Can liberty be conserved?” on Monday afternoon in Geddes Hall. To begin his talk, Blitz said it is crucial to understand precisely what liberty is before we can start to find a way of preserving it. “Liberty is the authority to direct
Kayla Mullen | Sunday, March 1, 2015
“The good Lord and Creator meant for every man, woman and child to enjoy his or her human dignity, and until all do, here and elsewhere in the world, we must be charged to move ahead more quickly with our unfinished human business, which as John Kennedy said, must also be God’s, too.” Widely known
Ann Marie Jakubowski | Sunday, March 1, 2015
Fr. Hesburgh, in your 97 years you transformed Notre Dame, the United States and the world. You had the most purposeful and inspiring life I can imagine, and your presence will be deeply missed. I wish there had been a way to watch the news of your death travel with a bird’s eye view, slowly
Mike Ginocchio | Friday, January 23, 2015
He would have turned 86 this year. Monday was Martin Luther King Day. Every year it is a day to celebrate a man who did more than any of us can imagine in a lifetime, and if it wasn’t for his assassination it is more than reasonable to think he would still be working today
Rebecca O'Neil | Thursday, February 13, 2014
Saint Mary’s welcomed Ekere Tallie, a poet whose work focuses on the values of an activist, to Carroll Auditorium on Thursday for a reading. She said her book, “Karma’s Footsteps,” is filled with the songs of a black, poor and resilient woman. Tallie said that she lives by writer and civil rights activist Audre Lorde’s