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Tuesday, March 26, 2019, 12:00 p.m.
Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America
Join the City Club for the next installment in our Book Club series as we discuss Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America by Kyle Swenson. In the early 1970s, three African-American men―Wiley Bridgeman, Kwame...
Friday, March 29, 2019, 5:10 p.m.
The South Bronx smoldered for nearly ten years. In the 1970s, the New York City borough lost almost 80 percent of its housing to fires, displacing 250,000 residents from their homes. Once a thriving, integrated community of African American, Irish,...
Saturday, March 30, 2019, 4:00 p.m.
One in four girls and one in six boys in America will experience sexual assault before the age of 18. While the numbers are staggering, these victims are anything but statistics. A GIRL NAMED C, a documentary illustrating the life-altering...
Tuesday, April 02, 2019, 7:15 p.m.
In August 2012, true crime blogger Alexandria Goddard read a brief headline about two high school football players charged with sexual assault in Steubenville, Ohio. A former local, Goddard knew the city revered its high school football team, and her...
Tuesday, April 02, 2019, 12:00 p.m.
Shifting Mindsets: The Promise of a Two-Generation Approach
Two-generation approaches work with children and their parents simultaneously to harness a family's full potential for educational success and economic prosperity. It is fueled by advances in brain science and a recognition of the return on investment in early education...
Friday, April 05, 2019, 12:00 p.m.
Start By Believing: Why Preventing Sexual Violence Starts With Listening to Survivors
From the rise of the #MeToo movement to allegations against high-profile celebrities, public officials, priests and powerful business executives, sexual violence has never been more prominent in our national headlines. In the midst of these news stories, an unprecedented volume...
Thursday, May 09, 2019, 12:00 p.m.
What Works and New Will: America Has Made Little Progress 50 Years After the Kerner Commission
In February 1968, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders – known as the Kerner Commission – concluded that America was heading toward “two societies, one black and one white, separate and unequal,” illustrating the country's economic and social division....
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