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Kelly Konya | Thursday, February 19, 2015
As listeners and attendees of many lectures, students continually face the question of “Now what?” once each discussion has ended. With this in mind, Saint Mary’s is working to encourage open-ended discussions after the orations end. Most recently, a community-wide book discussion group on “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle
Kiera Johnsen | Thursday, January 15, 2015
Michelle Alexander, acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar and bestselling author will speak at Saint Mary’s on Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. in O’Laughlin Auditorium. Her lecture, titled “Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” will be based off her book “The New Jim Crow,” discussing racial injustice in the American legal system. Alexander has