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| Mittie Imani Jordan, NIRJ Chair and Dr. Elizabeth Smith-Pryor, JD, PhD Professor of History, Kent State University |
| June Sallee Antoine, Shareholder Deuteronomy 8:3 Cafe Books & Music |
| Jordan and Dean Jonathan Entin |
Dr. Rhonda Williams, PhD, Associate Professor
of History and Director of the Social Justice Institute,
Case Western Reserve University; Rev. Dr.
Zachery Williams, PhD, NIRJ Board Member
Associate Professor of History, University of Akron;
of History and Director of the Social Justice Institute,
Case Western Reserve University; Rev. Dr.
Zachery Williams, PhD, NIRJ Board Member
Associate Professor of History, University of Akron;
| Dr. Jonathan Entin, JD, Associate Dean, Case Western Reserve University School of Law |
| NIRJ Board Member Charles Bevel and Discussion Series participants |
| Dr. Rhonda Williams, Mittie Jordan and Discussion Series participant |
| Above and below: Fran Stewart, Discussion Guide and Joan Southgate, Founder of Restore Cleveland Hope during Beloved Community Conversations: Dialogues About Race |
Serious Sister-Girls! Dr. Rhonda Williams,
PhD, Case Western Reserve University
Associate Professor of History and Director of the
Social Justice Institute; Dr. Pam Brooks, PhD,
Oberlin College Associate Professor of African
American Studies; Dr. Dolores Person Lairet,
PhD, NIRJ Board Member and Retired
Cleveland State University Associate Professor of
19th Century French, Russion, African and
Carribbean Francophone Literature; Dr. Alene
Barnes, PhD, Kent State University Associate
Professor of Pan African Studies
PhD, Case Western Reserve University
Associate Professor of History and Director of the
Social Justice Institute; Dr. Pam Brooks, PhD,
Oberlin College Associate Professor of African
American Studies; Dr. Dolores Person Lairet,
PhD, NIRJ Board Member and Retired
Cleveland State University Associate Professor of
19th Century French, Russion, African and
Carribbean Francophone Literature; Dr. Alene
Barnes, PhD, Kent State University Associate
Professor of Pan African Studies
Dr. Rhonda Williams, Aaron Pride, Kent State
University PhD candidate; Dr. Elizabeth
Smith-Pryor, JD, PhD, Kent State University
Associate Professor and Undergraduate
Coordinator of History; Dr. Dolores Lairet
University PhD candidate; Dr. Elizabeth
Smith-Pryor, JD, PhD, Kent State University
Associate Professor and Undergraduate
Coordinator of History; Dr. Dolores Lairet
| Dr. Jonathan Entin guides Racializing Justice discussion on voting disenfranchisement |
| Dr. Wanda Birch, JD, NIRJ General Counsel, guides Racializing Justice discussion on hyper- criminalization of youth |
| Dr. Rhonda Williams guides Living Black History "Master Narrative" discussion |
| Dr. Reginald Oh guides Living Black History on "The Unfulfilled Promise of Brown" discussion |
NIRJ Board Member,
Recording Artist and
Actor "Mississippi"
Charles Bevel opens
the discussion up with
a socially conscious song
Recording Artist and
Actor "Mississippi"
Charles Bevel opens
the discussion up with
a socially conscious song
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Photographs: Mittie Imani Jordan
and Jeff Ivey
and Jeff Ivey
| Summit - Turning Our Dollars Into Sense: A Community Strategic Thinking Summit Bessie House, PhD, Keynote 11/20//04 Summt - 13th Amendment & Prison Industrial Complex First Planning Summit 02/09/05 Second Summit: 13th Amendment & PIC 05/19—20/06 Guides: Ronald Adrine, JD, Mittie Jordan, James Millette, PhD, Carl A. Williams Summit - The Cleveland Movement: In The Spirit of Niagara 07/12—14/07 Summit - The Cleveland Movement: Precinct 101: Reclaiming our City one precinct at a time 02/06/10 Book: The Covenant With Black America by Tavis Smiley Covenants III—Correcting The System of Unequal Justice, & IV—Fostering Accountable Community-Centered Policing; City of Cleveland Police 5th Dirstrict Commander Calvin Williams, Discussion Guide 05/19/06 Book: In Search of The Talented Tenth, Zachery R. Williams, Author & Guide, Tuesdays 02/02, 09, 16, 23/10 Third Summit: 13th Amendment & PIC Dec 18, 2010 "Resurrecting Leadership" Film and Book Discussion Series: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Eyes on The Prize Tuess & Thurs, April 4—June 3, 2010 "Shackled Minds" Film and Book Discussion Series: "The Continued Bondage of Black America," Tues & Thurs Oct 26—Dec 16, 2010 Slavery And The Making of America, Mittie Imani Jordan, Chair, National Institute For Restorative Justice, Guide Forty Million Dollar Slaves: Rise Fall & Redemption Of Black American Athletes by William Rhoden, Brad Sellers, Former NBA Player and Mayor, City of Warrensville, Ohio, Guide Brainwashed:Challenging The Myth of Black Inferiority byTom Burrell, Zachery R. Whilliams, PhD, Assistant Professor of History and Associate Director of Pan African Studies, University of Akron, Guide Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profit and the Struggle For the Constitution by Lawrence Goldstone, Elizabeth Smith Pryor, PhD. Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator of History, Kent State University, Discussion Guide Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History by Michael Klarman, Jonathan Entin, JD, Professor of Law, Case Westen Reserve University School of Law, Discussion Guide Last Chance: The Political Threat To Black America by Lee Daniels, Charles Peterson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies,The College of Wooster, Guide The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness byMichelle Alexander, Pam Brooks, PhD, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Oberlin College, Discussion Guide Beloved Community Conversations: Dialogues About Race Saturdays, August 2011 In partnership with Restore Cleveland Hope Joan Southgate, Mittie Jordan, Karen Gillian, Fran Stewart, Dolores Lairet and Charles Bevel, Discussion Guides Imagining, Democracy, Justice: The Mind of Manning Marable Tuesdays & Thursdays, September 13 - November 3, 2011 Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race In America "Preface," "Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Race" "Part I The American Dilemma: Structural Racism: A Short History", "Part II:The Retreat From Equality," "Part III: Reconstructing Racial Politics" Mittie Imani Jordan, Chair, National Institute For Restorative Justice, Discussion Guide Great Wells of Democracy "Part III When the Spirit Moves: The Politics of Black Faith: 9/11 Racism in the Time of Terror," "Epilogue: The Souls of White Folk," Reverend Leah Lewis, MDiv, JD - Associate Pastor, Olivet Institutional Baptist Church; Associate Organizer, The Greater Cleveland Congregations, Discussion Guide Living Black History: "How Reimagining the African- American Past Can Remake America’s Racial Future Preface, Living Black History: Black Consciousness, Place and America’s Master Narrative Mapping Black Political Culture: Leadership, Intellectuals, and Resistance," Rhonda Williams, PhD - Director, Social Justice Institute, and Associate Professor of History, Case Western Reserve University, Discussion Guide Case Law School Lecture Series: "The Road to Justice" Fred Gray, JD - Civil Rights Attorney, Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray & Nathanson, Living Black History, "Resurrecting the Radical Dubois" Dr. Dolores Lairet, PhD - Associate Professor, Retired, French Languages and Literature, Cleveland State University; Board of Directors, The National Institute For Restorative Justice, Discussion Guide Living Black History "Malcolm X’s Life-After-Death: The Dispossession of a Legacy," Zachary R. Williams, PhD - Assistant Director for Pan African Studies, and Assistant Professor of History, University of Akron; Board of Directors, The National Institute For Restorative Justice, Discussion Guide Living Black History "The Unfulfilled Promise of Brown: From Desegregation to Global Racial Justice" and Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives: The Racism, Criminal Justice and Law Reader "Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives," Reginald Oh, JD - Associate Professor of Law, Cleveland State University Cleveland- Marshall College of Law, Discussion Guide Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives "Part I The Criminal Justice System and the New Racial Domain" Wanda Jordan Birch, JD - Counsel, The National Institute For Restorative Justice; Retired Magistrate, Cuyahoga County Probate Court, Discussion Guide Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives "Part II Women, Violence and Incarceration," Pam Brooks, PhD - Associate Professor of African American Studies, Oberlin College, Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives "Part III Racism, Law and Public Policy," Elizabeth Smith-Pryor, JD, PhD - Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Coordinator, History Department, Kent State University, Discussion Guide Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives "Part IV Voting Rights and Disenfranchisement," Jonathan Entin, JD - Professor of Law and Political Science, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Discussion Guide Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives "Part V First Person: Inside U.S. Prisons," James Page, Community Activist, Social & Spiritual Intellectual, Astrologer; Board of Directors, The National Institute For Restorative Justice, Discussion Guide Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives "Part VI Challenging The Prison-Industrial Complex," 'Mississippi' Charles Bevel, Professional Actor and Musician, Human Rights Activist; Board of Directors, The National Institute For Restorative Justice, Discussion Guide Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives "Part VI Challenging The Prison Industrial Complex" Edward Horton, Principal, E. Horton & Associates; Board of Directors, The National Institute for Restorative Justice, Discussion Guide Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives "Part VII Conclusion: The Color of Justice" Mittie Imani Jordan, Chair, The National Institute For Restorative Justice, Discussion Guide Organizing A Movement, Struggling To Freedom The Legacies of Randolph, Houston, Baker & Marshall Tuesdays & Thursdays April 10 - May 24, 2012 Community Summit: Backs,Brains, Bucks & Ballots: Crafting Indigenous Community Controlled Communities in the Age of Mass Urban Black Remval May 25 - 26, 2012 Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Lead Discussion Guide and Strategist, John Jay College Professor of Community Justice and Social Economics; Dr. Mittie Davis Jones, Cleveland State University Vice Chair and Associate Professor of Urban Affairs; Joseph Worthy, Children's Defense Fund Youth Leadership Development. Collective Courage: A History of African-American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice February 28, Booksigning with Jessica Gordon Nembard March 3 - April 2, 2015 Discussion Series Summit: 13th Amendment Sesquicentennial Dialogue: Thirteenth Amendment and the Criminalization of Black America December 18, 2015, January 28 -31, 2016 Cedric Merlin Powell, JD, Keynote and Lead Discussion Guide |
| Series Inaugural Leadership Lecturer, Adrienne Lash Jones , PhD 1898 Organization: National Afro-American Council Nishani Frazier, PhD, Discussion Guide, 09/14/04 The David Walker Appeal Mittie Imani Jordan, Discussion Guide 09/249/04 Life and Work of Benjamin Banneker Albert C. Antoine, PhD, Discussion Guide 11/10/04 1936 Organization of National Negro Congress Richard Peery, Discussion Guide 02/16//05 1870 Swearing in Hiram Revels, First Black Senator Michael Taylor, Discussion Guide 02/23/05 1937 Swearing in of William Henry Hasties, First African American Federal Judge Wanda Jordan Birch, JD, Discussion Guide, 03/23/05 Richmond Vs. Crosson: the Legal Challenge against “Minority” Contractor Set-Asides, Dominique Ozanne, JD, Discussion Guide 01/25/06 The Kerner Commission Report: Two Societies— Separate and Unequal Michael R. Williams, PhD, Discuss Guide 03/08/06 1879 Fifteenth Amendment & Voting Rights Act Reverend Tony Minor, Discussion Guide 03/29/06 From Negritude to Nigga: Burying the “N” Word Dolores Person Lairet, PhD, Discussion Guide Military Commission Act of 2006: Death of Habeas Corpus, Wanda J. Birch, JD, Discuss Guide 10/18/06 |
| Film: The Attack At West Point: The Court Marshall of Johnson Whittaker 06/12/04 Film: Posse 09/11/04 Film: The Road To Brown: Charles Hamilton Houston 10/20/04 Film: Goodbye Uncle Tom 03/16/06 Film: The Siege 10/20//06 Film: Boycott 01/19/07 (repeated 1/08, 1/09/ 1/10) Film: Hacking Democracy Reverend Tony Minor, Cecil Hickman, Jeffrey Kirby, Discussion Guides 02/23/07 Film: Eyes on The Prize April 4 - June 3, 2010 Film Slavery & The Making of America Oct 26 - Dec 16, 2010 |
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| "The Abolition Movement was only one front in the total struggle that engaged every level of black society. Not only black protesters, but also black students, artists and businessmen were pressed into service in that struggle. Powerful voices, almost all of them identified with the Abolitionist movement, emerged in the cultural arena. This development was largely a product of the study circles and literary societies founded by pioneer black leaders." Lerone Bennett, Jr.. |
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