Source: Maryland Insurance Administration email, 2/11/20
Monday, February 10, 2020
2020 HUMAN RIGHTS DAY IN ANNAPOLIS
Friday, February 21st 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Miller Senate Office Building – West 1
11 Bladen Street Annapolis, Maryland 21401
*Valid ID needed to enter building
REGISTER HERE & LEARN MORE
This event is free & open to the public. A continental breakfast & boxed lunch will be provided to all registrants.
The Maryland Association of Human Relations/Human Rights Agencies (MAHRA) invites you to join us for the annual MAHRA 2020 Human Rights Day in Annapolis! This yearly gathering of leaders and advocates passionate about human and civil rights is free and open to the public. The day will feature advocacy updates, check-ins from Senators and Delegates, panel discussions, and dynamic speakers.
Questions? Please contact Spencer Dove, Executive Associate at the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights (MCCR) at spencer.dove@maryland.gov or 410-767-8576.
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Training & Partnerships Education and Outreach
Source: MCCR email, February 10, 2020
Friday, February 7, 2020
UPCOMING IMPORTANT SOCIAL JUSTICE DATES REGARDING ANNAPOLIS STATE SESSION
February 9: SURJ Baltimore Anti Racists Legislative Agenda Day.
SURJ Baltimore - Showing Up for Racial Justice - will host a day of education, planning, and action for the 2020 Maryland legislative session. For more information, go to their website.
February 19: Maryland Catholic Conference Virtual Catholic Day of Action..
This will be the first virtual Catholic Day of Action. It is meant to encourage Catholics in Maryland to join together to send messages, make phone call, and take action on state issues. Read about this.
February 19: Maryland Affordable Housing Coalition 2020 Housing Day.
Coalition members will meet in Annapolis to learn about important legislative initiatives, network with other housing professionals, and tell legislators that rental housing is important and needs strengthening. Read more on the Coalition's website.
February 21: 2020 Human Rights Day in Annapolis
The Maryland Association of Human Relations/Human Rights Agencies (MAHRA) invites you to join us for the annual MAHRA 2020 Human Rights Day in Annapolis! This yearly gathering of leaders and advocates passionate about human and civil rights is free and open to the public. The day will feature advocacy updates, check-ins from Senators and Delegates, panel discussions, and dynamic speakers. The Day will be from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Miller Senate Office Building – West 1, 11 Bladen Street, Annapolis, Maryland 21401. Note that a valid ID is needed to enter the building. Questions? Please contact Spencer Dove, Executive Associate at the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights (MCCR) at spencer.dove@maryland.gov or 410-767-8576. Register here to learn more.
Sources of Information: Beyond the Boundaries, January 31, 2020; MCCR email, February 10, 2020.
Baltimore Zionist District to present "Zero Tolerance: A Panel Discussion on Antisemitism" on February 13th
Thursday, February 13, 2020
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Chizuk Amuno Congregation
8100 Stevenson Road
Pikesville, MD 21208
This will be a panel discussion with:
- Bryan Leib, National Director of Americans Against Antisemitism.
- Sarah N. Stern, Founder & President, Endowment for Middle East Truth.
- Rebecca Harary, Founder & President, CASEPAC.
This event is free of charge and co-sponsored by the Baltimore Jewish Council.
Ticket registration is required due to security reasons.
All tickets will be checked at the door.
For questions, please email Arielle Ashpes, Marketing and Communications Coordinator of BZD: Arielle@BZDisrael.org or call (410) 484-4510, ext. 106.
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
BOOK REVIEW
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jacqueline Woodson, and 39 more. Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2020. 336 pages. hardcover. $27.99.
and
Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLU’s 100-Year Fight for Rights in America by Ellis Cose. The New Press. 480 pages. hardcover. $29.99. To be published August 4, 2020.
To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union is publishing these two histories. Both are well worth reading.
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases was curated in cooperation with the ACLU by authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. It is an anthology of essays about important cases in the organization’s history that includes prominent cases like Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade and Miranda v. Arizona, as well as others whose outcomes influenced the law and living. For example, Hector Tobar discusses Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the Miranda rights. There also are essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and others. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.
Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLU’s 100-Year Fight for Rights in America is a history of the ACLU by the nationally celebrated journalist, bestselling author (The Rage of a Privileged Class, The End of Anger), and the ACLU's first official writer-in-residence.
The book tells the story of the ACLU as well as the fight for rights that were legal but not enjoyed by all. It chronicles the ACLU's involvement in work around World War I, the Red Scare, the Scottsboro Boys’ trials, Japanese American internment, McCarthyism, Vietnam, 9/11, Edward Snowden, and the current American President.
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases was curated in cooperation with the ACLU by authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. It is an anthology of essays about important cases in the organization’s history that includes prominent cases like Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade and Miranda v. Arizona, as well as others whose outcomes influenced the law and living. For example, Hector Tobar discusses Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the Miranda rights. There also are essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and others. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.
Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLU’s 100-Year Fight for Rights in America is a history of the ACLU by the nationally celebrated journalist, bestselling author (The Rage of a Privileged Class, The End of Anger), and the ACLU's first official writer-in-residence.
BOOK REVIEW
Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Kerri K. Greenidge. Liveright, 2019. 432 pages. hardcover. $35.00.
Interesting biography of William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934) who founded the Boston-based black weekly newspaper The Guardian in the first three decades of the 20th century. Instead of the accomodationist racial policies of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois, Trotter advocated a radical vision of black liberation that eventually produced leaders such as Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. The the first man of color to earn a Phi Beta Kappa key at Harvard University, he also was active in protest movements for civil rights during the 1900s and 1910s. During a 1914 meeting with President Woodrow Wilson, he protested Wilson's introduction of racial segregation into the federal workplace. He joined with W. E. B. Du Bois in founding the Niagara Movement in 1905, a forerunner of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
The author teaches in Tufts University’s Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora. She also is director of Tufts' program in American studies and co-director of the African American Trail Project.
Selected in the New York Times • Times Critics Top Books of 2019.
The author teaches in Tufts University’s Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora. She also is director of Tufts' program in American studies and co-director of the African American Trail Project.
Selected in the New York Times • Times Critics Top Books of 2019.
Recommended.
Friday, January 24, 2020
J. Charles Jones, Civil Rights Activist, 82
A founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which linked young people with the larger civil rights movement, Jones organized some of the first lunch-counter sit-ins in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In the early 1960s, Jones was one of the Freedom Riders, a group that protested racial segregation on interstate buses in the South. He led voter-registration efforts in Georgia and Mississippi.
Jones' work in housing discrimination also produced change. As the president of ACCESS — the Action Coordinating Committee to End Segregation in the Suburbs — Jones identified dozens of apartment buildings and housing developments that forbade black residents, despite when they were members of the military. In 1966, Jones walked the entire length of the Capital Beltway, carrying a sign reading “End Apartment Segregation.” In 1966, after a 14-mile march to protest discriminatory housing policies in Northern Virginia, police were needed to keep Jones and his group separate from members of the Ku Klux Klan and others wearing Nazi swastikas. His advocacy worked. In 1967, US Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara's order prohibiting military personnel from living in segregated housing within about three miles of Maryland's Andrews Air Force Base.
Jones was arrested multiple times at demonstrations, including twice with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., with whom he was on a first-name basis.
Read the January 18, 2020 Washington Post article.
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