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Central Jersey groups to host online session on school segregation
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Rutgers law professor and recent appointee to the Presidential
Commission on the Supreme Court Elise Boddie will speak on school segregation on Thursday, May 13 at 6 p.m.Courtesy of Elise Boddie
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Rutgers law professor and recent appointee to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court Elise Boddie will an online talk titled “Struggling for the Soul of Public Education” 6 p.m. Thursday, May 13.
The lecture will address the challenges of integration in the North and why school segregation is a threat to public education and to democracy. After her presentation, Boddie will be in conversation with Lynda Dodd, a lecturer in Public Affairs at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs who specializes in civil rights and constitutional law.
Common calendar, Packet papers, May 7
Common calendar, Packet papers, May 7
Ongoing
Look for signs on Route 206.
Volunteers are needed, age 18 and older, will clean both sides of Route 206 between New Amwell and Homestead Road.
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Throughout May
The 2021 season of the Brook Arts Center in Bound Brook continues on May 8 with the return of “Winslow, An Evening of the Eagles.”
May 9 will be an afternoon of music to celebrate mothers with American’s Tenor Dominic Mantuano.
On May 22, Amani will perform jazz, blues, ballads and bop.
The Closet Carpenters will perform the songs of the duo Richard and Karen Carpenter on May 30 at 7 p.m.
Common calendar, Packet papers, April 30
Common calendar, Packet papers, April 30
Mercer County Community College has opened registration for in-person summer Tomato Patch program, its dance, theater, vocal and visual arts programs at Kelsey Theatre.
McCarter Theatre Center’s Resident Producer Debbie Bisno presents “The Manic Monologues.”
This initiative brings to life true stories submitted by resilient people across the world living with mental health challenges, performed by a celebrated cast of actors and enhanced by interactive design and technology.
June 21-26: Studio art foundations, drawing, painting, sculpture
June 28 to July 2: masks, make believe
July 6-9: Magic of Monet
July 12-16: imagination drawing
April 12, 2021
Elise Boddie, Henry Rutgers Professor, Professor of Law and Judge Robert L. Carter Scholar at Rutgers University–Newark has been appointed by President Biden to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court. She joins other national legal experts who will look at the makeup and size of the Court and its case selection, according to a news release from the White House on Friday, April 9.
Boddie, an award-winning and nationally-recognized civil rights and constitutional scholar, was previously the Director of Litigation for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. and is the founder of The Inclusion Project at Rutgers Law School-Newark. She is engaged with communities, students, faith leaders, educators, and researchers in a multisector initiative to build equitable education systems in New Jersey public schools.