Lectures tagged "civil rights movement"

US Supreme Court and Race
Randall Kennedy
March 10, 2010
01:07:00
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.
Steve Yarbrough: Safe From the Neighbors
Steve Yarbrough
February 19, 2010
00:33:12
Award-winning novelist and finalist for the 2005 PEN/Faulkner Award, Steve Yarbrough reads from his newest novel, Safe from the Neighbors. Luke May teaches local history--his lifelong obsession--at his old high school in Loring, Mississippi.
Adam Haslett: Union Atlantic
Adam Haslett
February 18, 2010
00:38:52
Short story writer and debut novelist Adam Haslett reads from Union Atlantic. At the heart of Union Atlantic lies a test of wills between a young banker, Doug Fanning, and a retired schoolteacher, Charlotte Graves, whose two dogs have begun to speak to her.
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Cathy Wilkerson: My Life as a Weatherman
Cathy Wilkerson
April 16, 2009
01:01:30
Cathy Wilkerson, an activist in the civil rights movement, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Weathermen, was one of two women to survive an explosion in the basement of her family's townhouse, which killed three Weathermen, forcing the group underground.
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Andrew Young at the Istanbul Center
Andrew Young
November 13, 2008
00:22:56
Andrew Young, former US Ambassador to the UN, former Atlanta Mayor, US Congressman, and civil rights leader, addresses guests of the Istanbul Center's sixth annual "Dialogue and Friendship" dinner. WABE 90.1-FM News Reporter Charles Edwards is the master of ceremonies.
Discussing Civil Rights
Hank Klibanoff
June 12, 2008
01:28:35
Hank Klibanoff, managing editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and author of The Race Beat; Doris Derby, photographer, educator, and civil rights activist; and Brett Gadsden, assistant professor of African American Studies at Emory University, discuss how the nation's press ca
Glenda Gilmore: Defying Dixie
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
March 18, 2008
00:56:50
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, a native North Carolinian and the C.
Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy
Jeffrey D. Grove
February 27, 2008
01:09:25
Artists Adam Pendleton, Nadine Robinson, Jefferson Pinder, Jeffrey Grove, and Hank Willis Thomas, along with Kenya Evans and Jabari Anderson of Otabenga Jones & Associates, discuss their participation in the exhibit After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy.