Lectures tagged "human rights"


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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.
Charlotte Dennett: The People v. Bush
Charlotte Dennett
January 20, 2010
00:54:44
Journalist-turned-lawyer Charlotte Dennett discusses her new book, The People v. Bush: One Lawyer's Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the National Grassroots Movement She Encountered Along the Way.
Fairly Unbalanced: Writing Political Satire in the 21st Century
Jimmy Tingle
June 14, 2009
01:30:40
PEN New England and Cambridge Forum present a discussion of the power and the pitfalls of writing in the age of Jon Stewart and Al Franken.
Black Women's Resistance in the US South and South Africa
Pamela Brooks
April 2, 2009
01:15:47
Pamela Brooks shares from her new book Boycotts, Buses, and Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the US South and South Africa.
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Educating for Human Rights and Global Competency
Felisa Tibbitts
February 10, 2009
01:38:57
Felisa Tibbitts, of Human Rights Education Associates, and Ed Gragert, of the International Educational Resource Network (iEARN), examine the relationship of Human Rights Education and Global Competen
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Elections, Successions and Post-Literate America
Michael Dawson
October 27, 2004
01:29:40
A panel of political, media, and education experts explore issues ranging from the use of satire as a political tool to black voter suppression.