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Generations of Social Justice

November 14, 2010

Xernona Clayton President and CEO, Trumpet Awards Foundation [homepage]

Dante Gibbs staff member, East Cleveland Partnership [homepage]

This program invites two individuals, Xerona Clayton who worked with Dr Martin Luther King 50 years ago and today is the president of the foundation that presents the Trumpet Awards, a prestigious award ceremony which recognizes African American accomplishments and is sponsored by the Turner Broadcasting System, and Donte Gibbs, a graduate student working for the East Cleveland Partnership, a collaboration between the City of East Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University’s Social Justice Institute. While separated by generations, both are involved in community uplift. Listen to hear about how two individuals separated by generations were inspired to contribute to their community.

Topics: Culture & Identity | History | People & Places | Politics & Public Affairs

Sub-Topics: Activism | African American | Community Building | Culture | Culture & Identity | Film & Video | Higher Education | Philanthropy | Race

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Case Western Reserve University

African Meeting House Rededication Ceremony, Boston, Part 1

Beverly Morgan-Welch

The African Meeting House, located in Beacon Hill, Boston, was built in 1806 by skilled African-American craftsmen, and was the center of Boston's African-American community for nearly one hundred years.

Isabel Wilkerson: Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson discusses her first book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.

International Law in Crisis - Panel 1A

Universal Jurisdiction in Crisis and the 50th anniversary of the Eichmann Trial

US Supreme Court and Race

Randall Kennedy

Two Harvard legal scholars discuss the complex and often misunderstood history of how decisions by the United States Supreme Court have affected the legal status of racial minorities in America, and ask if the Supreme Court has been a friend or a foe to African Americans.

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

Wes Moore, combat veteran and former White House Fellow, discusses chance, fate, family, and accountability and his new book The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates. He then introduces representatives from non-profit organizations that work to provide opportunity for at-risk students.

John Callahan and Adam Bradley on Ralph Ellison

Editors John Callahan and Adam Bradley discuss Ralph Ellison's posthumously-published second novel Three Days Before the Shooting.

I'Ve Been Marching All the Time: An Autobiography

Author: Xernona Clayton, Hal Gulliver

Publisher: Longstreet Pr (1991)

Binding: Hardcover, 261 pages

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