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HEAF Students Conduct Mock trial With United States Circuit Judge

Posted on May 15, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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On May 13th, students from the Harlem Educational Activities Fund conducted a mock trial presided over by Judge Robert Katzmann (center), a United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Continue reading →

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Walter’s World: Lyrics From Lockdown at the National Black Theatre

Posted on February 17, 2013 by | Leave a comment

By Walter Rutledge

Lockdown

Playwright Oscar Wilde said, “I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” Continue reading →

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Reginald E. Gilliam, Jr., Passes

Posted on March 30, 2012 by | 2 Comments

Reginald E. Gilliam, Jr., a trailblazing African-American lobbyist and most recently Sodexo Senior Vice President, Government Affairs, passed away at the age of 67 on March 28, 2012 after succumbing to lymphoma. Continue reading →

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Riverside Church Hosts Memorial Service for Derrick Bell

Posted on November 3, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The memorial service for the late Derrick Bell, prominent intellectual, acclaimed civil rights attorney and legal and social activist,  will take place at The Riverside Church on Thursday, November 3, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Church’s Nave, 91 Claremont Ave. (between 120th & 122nd Street), Morningside Heights.

After a valiant battle with cancer, Derrick Bell died on October 5, 2011.  Professor Bell joined the faculty of New York University School of Law in 1992.  Continue reading →

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HW Bio: Benjamin Davis, Jr., Harlem City Councilman

Posted on July 10, 2010 by | 2 Comments

Biography

A major figure in Harlem community politics and the Communist Party during the 1930s and 1940s, Benjamin Davis, Jr. was born into a prominent African American family in Atlanta, Georgia in 1903. He migrated north to Massachusetts to attend college at Amherst, where he was an all-American football player, and in 1932 graduated from Harvard Law School. Continue reading →

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