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“Our Declaration” Reissued for America 250
First published in 2014, Professor Danielle Allen’s Our Declaration has been reissued with a new foreword this year to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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Black Artists Respond to Pandemic, Demands for Racial Justice, and Threats to Democracy
The Ash Center and Hutchins Center for African and African American Research hosted a discussion on how artists, particularly artists of color, are responding to the current fight for racial justice during a global pandemic.
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New report by Voting Rights Advocates, Practitioners, and Scholars Details Need for Universal Civic Duty Voting
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Protest, Mobilization, and the 2020 Election: The Role of Philanthropy
The Ash Center hosted a conversation with leading practitioners in philanthropy who talked about all of these issues and the urgency that the times demand.
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The Movement for Black Lives: Where do we go from here?
The Ash Center hosted a roundtable discussion about the continuing fight for racial justice in the United States.
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Who Watches the Watchmen? Race and Policing Through the Lens of Popular Entertainment
The Ash Center hosted a conversation about how Watchmen and other popular entertainment can highlight and help us understand critical issues around race and policing.
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A New Deal During COVID-19: A Million-Person Health Corps?
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A Discussion on Black Lives, Protest, and Democracy
The Ash Center hosted a conversation with leading scholars and practitioners about the George Floyd protests, their place in the long fight for social justice, and what they tell us about the state of democracy in America today.
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Empowering Workers in the Fight Against COVID-19
COVID-19 was amplifying a fundamental democratic mismatch: the vulnerable, often low-income and of-color, workers who are among the most affected by this pandemic have little influence over decisions — in companies and governments — about how this pandemic was managed.
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On the Front Lines: Tribal Nations Take on COVID-19
Like governments around the world, America’s 574 federally recognized tribal nations were racing to protect their citizens from the coronavirus. Impacting tribes at a rate four times higher than the US population, the pandemic was testing the limits of tribal public health infrastructures.