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Controlling Women : What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom

Join us in welcoming Kathryn Kolbert as our Fall 2024 speaker for the Ackerman Lecture on Equality and Justice. She will describe the nearly five decades of legal battles around abortion that have…

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Ackerman Lecture: Just Transition and Democratic Planning

Climate change and our broader ecological crisis pose a serious challenge to our basic social and political systems. A variety of styles of response to this scale have emerged. Some involve emphasis…

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Building People Power to Win Change

The 2019 Spring Ackerman Lecture features Cristina Jimenez, a community organizer, strategists and freedom fighter. She is the Executive Director and Co-founder of United We Dream (UWD), the largest…

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Social Equality Leadership Conference. Promoting Equality in an Age of Austerity.

Keynote addresses from the National Academy of Public Administration sponsored event explore ways that states and localities can address inequality in the face of fiscal austerity. J. Philip…

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Social Equality Leadership Conference. Promoting Equality in an Age of Austerity. The Role of State and Local Governments.

Addresses from the National Academy of Public Administration sponsored event explores ways that states and localities can address inequality in the face of fiscal austerity. Bruce J. Katz: The New…

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The Dreamer and the Day Laborer : Two Faces of the Immigrants Rights Movements

This lecture focuses on Manuel Castro's work in and with New York City government to strengthen the labor rights and organizing of day laborers.

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Latinos and the Endangered Right to Vote

Juan Caragena discusses the consequence of recent policy changes on minority and particularly Latino voters

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The Changing Climate for Criminal Justice Reform

Marc Mauer delivers the 2015 Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Lecture. This lecture examines how and why the climate for criminal justice reform has changed over the past decade. Is the new political…

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Place not race : a new vision of opportunity in America

Baruch College’s School of Public Affairs welcomes Sheryll Cashin, Professor of Law at Georgetown University, as the guest speaker of the 2015 Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Lecture. The lecture…

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Civil Rights in the 21st Century

Gerald A. Reynolds, Chairman for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights since December 6, 2004, gives a lecture entitled "Civil Rights in the 21st Century" as part of the Lillie and Nathan…

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