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Tuesday, May 25, 2021
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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It was the legendary civil rights leader and human rights advocate John Lewis who famously said in his autobiography Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, "I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful."
This year, the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage...
Friday, December 17, 1982, 12:00 p.m.
Free Speech and the First Amendment
Senator Mathias, a liberal Republican often called “the conscience of the Senate," discusses the importance of defending civil liberties and retaining of the integrity of the Constitution. Mathias spent the first half of his political career fighting for civil rights. He...
Science, Technology & Innovation
Wednesday, December 08, 1982, 12:00 p.m.
Colonel Robert F. Overmyer was an American test pilot, naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, physicist, United States Marine Corps officer, and USAF/NASA astronaut. He was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1969 after the cancellation of the Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory....
Friday, December 03, 1982, 12:00 p.m.
Jan Nowak, author and broadcaster who is internationally known for his reporting on Poland's struggle for freedom and the Soviet threat to the West, reflects on the future of Poland. Nowak is a consultant to the U.S. National Security Council and...
Friday, November 19, 1982, 12:00 p.m.
Dr. Karen N. Horn became the sixth president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland in 1982 and the first woman president in the Federal Reserve System’s 69-year history. As president, Horn successfully guided the Cleveland Fed through Ohio’s savings and...
Friday, November 12, 1982, 12:00 p.m.
United States/South Africa Policy
Randall Robinson, Director of TransAfrica, discusses foreign policy issues facing South Africa and the United States. TransAfrica is a Washington-based Black American lobby whose purpose is to organize popular support in the United States for policies and practices that will help...
Friday, November 05, 1982, 12:00 p.m.
The Auto Industry in Transition: the Opportunity and the Threat
W. Paul Tippett, Chairman and CEO of American Motors Corporation, discusses opportunities and threats arising from transitions in the automotive industry. Tippett joined American Motors in 1978 as President and Chief Operating Officer and was named President and CEO in January,...
Friday, October 15, 1982, 12:00 p.m.
Public Education -- Where is it Going?
Gene I. Maeroff, education writer for The New York Times, discusses contemporary issues in public education. Maeroff, who write for The Plain Dealer before going to New York, is the author of The Guide to Suburban Public Schools and Don't Blame...
Friday, September 17, 1982, 12:00 p.m.
Church, State, and the Arms Race
Bishop Anthony Pilla of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland discusses the relationship between church, state, and the arms race. Bishop Pilla elaborates on his vision of the church, a vision which depicts a church that suffers alongside the world when...
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