Michigan Enacts Landmark Jail Reforms pewtrusts.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pewtrusts.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Black Liberation and Justice in Detroit
What would it take to make Detroit a “just city” – an actual sanctuary of justice for its residents? Amanda Alexander, founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Justice Center is working on exactly that. Based on a wide range of experiences – from learning alongside ACT UP AIDS activists, to spending time in newly post-apartheid South Africa, to the Movement for Black Lives – Alexander combines her background as a historian and an attorney to reimagine safety and justice in Detroit.
In this episode of
Shades of Freedom, Alexander weaves together her own experiences, and the long history of global civil rights movements, to discuss what’s going on right now in Detroit, including innovative supports for community members that prevent contact with the legal system in the first place, shifting funds from a focus on policing to prevention, and supporting communities to define and create their own safety.
Partners to host virtual Young Professionals of Color conference - Grand Rapids Business Journal grbj.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from grbj.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
NYU Law to celebrate 2021 graduates in virtual Convocation ceremony on May 20
NYU Law will honor and celebrate its 2021 graduates with a virtual Convocation ceremony at 3 p.m. on Thursday, May 20. This event will celebrate the Law School’s graduating students through speeches and well wishes, and will conclude with a presentation of the names of all JD, LLM, JSD, MSL, MS, and Advanced Certificate recipients.
On the day of the event, a video link to the ceremony will be posted on this page.
Helen Jennings LLM ’21
Safeena Mecklai JD ’21
Helen Jennings LLM ’21 and Safeena Mecklai JD ’21 will address their fellow graduates. NYU President Andrew Hamilton, Dean Trevor Morrison, and David Tanner ’84, chair of the New York University School of Law Foundation, will also speak, offering their congratulations to the Class of 2021.