Thursday, November 10, 2016
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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Thursday, November 10, 2016
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the Secretary of War to place Americans of Japanese descent in internment camps. At the time, Fred Korematsu, an American born in the U.S. to Japanese parents, became a fugitive until he was arrested by military police, placed in an internment camp, and...
Monday, September 25, 2017, 12:00 p.m.
Youth Forum: Affirmative Action and Unintended Discrimination
On March 6, 1961, President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925 with a provision that required government contractors to “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race,...
Friday, September 22, 2017, 12:00 p.m.
They Can't Kill Us All: Law Enforcement, Race, and Justice
On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown was shot by police officer Darren Wilson in the northern St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. Within the next year, Eric Garner in New York, Tamir Rice in Cleveland, and Freddie Gray in Baltimore were...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Is this Land My Land?: Diversifying America's Parks
African-Americans represent 13 percent of the national population, but only represent seven percent of visitors to the National Park Service. The reasons for this disconnect are varied: for many, the outdoors evokes lynchings, trauma, and flight from slavery and discrimination....
Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 4:00 p.m.
Anatomy of Justice: The Mystery of Plea Agreements
The Sixth Amendment guarantees that “in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury.” And yet, in today's criminal justice system, very few cases go to trial. Instead, most cases...
Monday, September 18, 2017, 6:00 p.m.
CCMV: What's the Real Threat? White Nationalism, Xenophobia, and the Politics of Division
The recent violence in Charlottesville is one painfully visible reminder of the division, distrust, and hateful extremism that is on the rise in the United States. Since January, there have been more than 65 bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers...
Sunday, September 17, 2017, 2:00 p.m.
For Freedoms Town Hall Discussion: Freedom From Fear: MIGRATION
MOCA Cleveland is partnering with For Freedoms, an artist-run Super PAC founded by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman, in a two-year residency focused on a series of free, quarterly Town Hall discussions. Co-produced with The City Club of...
Friday, September 15, 2017, 12:00 p.m.
On September 17, 2017, the United States will celebrate the 230th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. The U.S. Department of Citizenship and Immigration Services celebrates that entire week and encourages Americans "to reflect on the rights and responsibilities...
Friday, September 08, 2017, 12:00 p.m.
Life and Literature of Isabel Allende
In 1981, Isabel Allende began her first book, The House of the Spirits, as a letter to her 100-year old grandfather who was dying in Chile. The book was immediately an international bestseller and launched her career as the most...
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