Alicia Ely Yamin, JD MPH, leads the Global Health and Rights Project at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, a collaboration with the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University, and is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Since 2016, Yamin has served on the UN Secretary-General’s Independent Accountability Panel for the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescents’ Health. Previously, she…

Please join us for a community discussion about the struggle against racial discrimination within the criminal justice system and its impact on black and brown communities. The evening’s program will feature local criminal justice experts from the judicial system, academia, and the advocacy community, in addition to a very special one-on-one discussion with renown racial justice lawyer Flint Taylor, who will speak about his new memoir, The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago. During a special one-on-one interview,…

Pauli’s Durham is a 75-min walk into Durham’s history of racial segregation in the West End Neighborhood. Aya Shabu and friends share stories about the significance of Black Civil War soldiers, the Freedman Schools movement, unsung shero Pauli Murray – her multi-racial ancestry and heritage, and Pauli’s long history of relentless activism. This walk is a collaboration with the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice and Whistlestop Tours. All tours start @ 10 a.m. at the Pauli Murray…