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UPCOMING EVENT
The House I Live In
Film Screenings
The Houston Institute is pleased to be co-sponsoring two upcoming screenings of this acclaimed documentary. Each screening will be followed by a discussion with director Eugene Jarecki and Professor Charles Ogletree.
Monday, February 11 at 7:00 pm
Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley St.
Boston, MA
Free and open to the public
Co-sponsors: National
Lawyers Guild, (Mass. Chapter), Families Against Mandatory Minimums
(FAMM), New England Area Conference of the NAACP (NEAC), ACLU of MA,
Blackstonian
Tuesday, February 12 at 6:00 pm
JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School
Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public
Co-sponsors:
Center for Public Leadership's Student Advisory Board, Criminal Justice
Professional Interest Council, Harvard Black Law Students Association,
Harvard Kennedy School Black Student Union, Harvard Undergraduate Legal
Committee
Film Synopsis
As
America remains embroiled in conflict overseas, a less visible war is
taking place at home, costing countless lives, destroying families, and
inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans. Over forty
years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests,
made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at
home and abroad. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more
available today than ever before. Filmed in more than twenty states, The House I Live In captures
heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels of America's War
on Drugs. From the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer
to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge, the film offers a
penetrating look inside America's longest war, offering a definitive
portrait and revealing its profound human rights implications.
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NEW PUBLICATION
Upstream People: Can Nebraska Show a Separate, Unequal Nation a Better Way?
by Susan Eaton, with photographs by Gina Chirichigno and mini documentaries by Mark Pagán
In their newest Story from the Field, One Nation Indivisible
looks close up at Nebraska's Learning Community, which aims to reduce
inequality, expand educational opportunity and create more socioeconomic
diversity in the Omaha region. The only such model of its kind, the
Learning Community emerged after anguished debate about big, messy
issues most public leaders even in our most progressive metropolitan
areas tend to avoid-- things like segregation, righting the wrongs of past discrimination, social cohesion and fairness.
A version of this story appeared in several online news outlets, including The Huffington Post.
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UPCOMING EVENT
Panel on Solitary Confinement
Monday, February 25, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Austin Hall, West Classroom, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public. Dinner will be served.
Hosted by The Prison Legal Assistance Project, a Student Practice Organization at Harvard Law School
Participants include:
- Gráinne O'Neill, an attorney who specializes in research on long-term solitary confinement of political prisoners.
- Dr. Stuart Grassian, a psychiatrist who has extensively researched the psychological impact of solitary confinement.
- Professor Jules Lobel,
the director of the Center on Constitutional Rights. He filed a
class-action lawsuit against California's solitary confinement policies
and will address the role of impact litigation strategies.
- Bobby Dellelo, who spent 43 years in prison including years in solitary confinement and now advocates for an end to solitary.
- Mikail DeVeaux, Executive Director of Citizens Against Recidivism. He served time in Sing Sing and speaks out against solitary confinement.
- Moderator: Matthew Segal, Legal Director of the ACLU Foundation of Massachusetts.
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UPCOMING EVENT
All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert
Film Screening and Q&A
with artist Winfred Rembert and filmmaker Vivian Ducat
Wednesday, February 27 at 5:30pm
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St.
Cambridge, MA
Co-sponsored by the City of Cambridge Mayor's Office and Employee's Committee on Diversity, the Cambridge Arts Council, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute
With
his intensely autobiographical paintings depicting the day-to-day
existence of African Americans in the segregated South, Winfred Rembert
has preserved an important, if often disturbing, chapter of American
history. His indelible images of toiling in the cotton fields, singing
in church, dancing in juke joints, or working on a chain gang are
especially powerful, not just because he lived every moment, but because
he experienced so much of the injustice and bigotry they show as
recently as the 1960s and 70s. Now in his sixties, Rembert has developed
a growing following among collectors and connoisseurs, and enjoyed a
number of tributes and exhibitions of his work. In "ALL ME: The Life and
Times of Winfred Rembert," the artist relives his turbulent life,
abundantly visualized by his extensive paintings and, in a series of
intimate reminiscences, shows us how even the most painful memories can
be transformed into something meaningful and beautiful. A glowing
portrait of how an artist-and his art-is made, "ALL ME" is also a
triumphant saga of race in contemporary America.
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UPCOMING CONFERENCE
Harvard Black Law Students Association
30th Annual Spring Conference
"Taking It Back: Reclaiming The Purpose,
Refocusing the Debate, and Recapturing the Dream"
March 1-3, 2013
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA
Featuring Panels on Education, Political Action, Black Images in the Media, Crime and Urban Growth, and more.
Featured guests include Former White House Deputy Counsel Cassandra Butts, Film Producer Debra Martin-Chase ("Sparkle," "Just Wright"), Writer/Actress Issa Rae ("Awkward Black Girl"), former Baltimore mayor and Howard Law Dean Kurt Schmoke, BC Law Dean Vincent Rougeau, Harvard Emeritus Education Professor Charles V. Willie, and our Lunchtime Keynote Speaker Donna Brazile.
More information will be available soon.
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UPCOMING CONFERENCE
Rodriguez at 40: Exploring New Paths to Equal Educational Opportunity
Date: Friday, March 8, 2013
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, VA
Cost: Free, registration required
This conference will explore the condition of public education 40 years after San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 1(1973). The Rodriguez case, considered one of the major civil rights setbacks in recent decades,
held that the federal constitution did not guarantee a right to
education. The conference will bring together scholars, educators, and
practitioners to examine the state of educational opportunity in the
United States, to offer a critique of the effectiveness of existing
efforts to advance equal educational opportunity and to develop and
analyze novel approaches to achieving this important national goal.
Presented
by the University of Richmond School of Law and the Charles Hamilton
Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School
Featuring the 25th Annual Emanuel Emroch Lecture by Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
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UPCOMING EVENT
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute/Houston Institute Film Series
The Central Park Five
Film Screening
Tuesday, March 12 at 5:30 pm
Wasserstein Hall, Room 2036
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public
A film by Ken Burns, David McMahon & Sarah Burns
In
1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and
later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park.
They spent between six and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist
confessed that he alone had committed the crime, resulting in their
convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city
beset by violence and racial tension, THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE tells the
story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a
media clamoring for sensational stories, an outraged public, and the
five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.
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Community Events of Interest
The Revolution Will Be LIVE!
11th Annual Alumni of Color Conference
March 1 - 2, 2013
Harvard Graduate School of Education
The Alumni of Color
Conference (AOCC) seeks to inspire and impact the improvement of the
education sector by annually convening Harvard Graduate School of
Education alumni, students, and friends concerned with issues of race,
class, and education as they pertain to all people, in particular, to
communities of color. The theme for the 11th Annual Alumni of Color
Conference is The Revolution will be LIVE.
This year's conference honors the essence of revolutionary work by
challenging us all to think beyond the approaches we normally engage in
to promote social justice in education, particularly for students of
color.
Featuring keynote addresses from:
Denise Juneau, Ed.M.'94 - State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Montana
Dr. Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade -
Associate Professor of Raza Studies and Education, San Francisco State
University; Director of the Educational Equity Initiative, Institute for
Sustainable Economic, Educational, and Environmental Design
Richard Reddick,
Ed.M.'98, Ed.D.'07 - Assistant Professor in the College of Education's
Department of Educational Administration, The University of Texas at
Austin
The conference also includes a choice of workshops and panel sessions. Please visit the AOCC website to see the full conference schedule.
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SAVE THE DATE:
The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute's
Annual Martha's Vineyard Forum
~ August 14, 2013 ~
This year's topic: Race and Health
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About the Houston Institute
Established in the fall of 2005 at Harvard Law School by Professor Charles J. Ogletree,
Jr., the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
(CHHIRJ) seeks to honor the extraordinary contributions of one of the
great lawyers of the twentieth century. Charles Hamilton Houston
dedicated his life to using the law as a tool to reverse the unjust
consequences of racial discrimination. CHHIRJ is committed to
marshalling the resources of Harvard and beyond to continue his
unfinished work.
Accommodations: If you are a person
with a disability requesting a reasonable accommodation in order to
attend a Houston Institute event, please contact us two weeks in
advance.
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