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Fort Western lecture series continues with history author


Fort Western lecture series continues with history author
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AUGUSTA Award-winning historian and author Alan Taylor is to present “Freedom, Slavery, and Maine Statehood in 1820” at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 6, at Central Church, 20 Mission Ave.
Taylor’s presentation will be the sixth of a series of lectures sponsored by Old Fort Western and the Maine Bicentennial Commission.
A 1977 graduate of Colby College, Taylor received his doctorate in American History from Brandeis University in 1986. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Virginia, 1985-1987), he taught at Boston University, 1987-1994; the University of California at Davis, 1994-2014; and the University of Virginia, where he holds the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair, 2014. In 2016-2017 he served as the Harmsworth Professor at Queens College, Oxford University. ....

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Op-Ed: AMA Needs To Go Bigger on Racial Justice


The American Medical Association (AMA) has never been a trailblazer on issues of social and racial justice.
As in society as a whole, attitudes at the AMA have changed, albeit at a glacial pace. In 2008, the AMA broke new ground and apologized for its long history of discrimination against Black physicians it didn t admit its first Black delegate to its policy-setting House of Delegates until 1950, more than a century after its founding and entered on what it calls a path of racial healing and reconciliation.
Thirteen years later, AMA leadership again felt a sting of conscience about past policies that kept Black medical doctors out of the mainstream of American medical politics. The target this time was the AMA s revered founder Nathan Smith Davis Sr., MD, LLD, who helped create the AMA and aimed to make it an arbiter for improving the standards of medical practice. ....

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POLSINELLI PC: Polsinelli Denver's Richard Murray Recognized with Prestigious 2020 Davis Award


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Polsinelli PC issued the following announcement on Jan. 22.
Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli shareholder Richard Murray was honored with the 2020 Richard Marden Davis Award at a virtual ceremony in his honor. The award recognizes Murray’s exceptional service to the legal community, as well as his civic and charitable leadership.
Presented annually, The Davis Award is given to a Denver lawyer who is 40 years old or younger and combines excellence as a lawyer with civic, cultural, educational and charitable leadership. David Graham & Stubbs LLP (DGS) and the Denver Bar Association created this award in memory of Richard Marden Davis, one of the firm’s founders who was tirelessly devoted to the profession and his community. The award is presented by DGS, the Denver Bar Association and the Davis Family to the honoree who best exemplifies the character and promise of Richard Davis at that stage in his career. Murray follows a long line of winners who continue to ser ....

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