Daphne A. Brooks, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, Theater Studies, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University
Join the Women, Gender, and Health Interdisciplinary Conentration and the Project on Race and Gender in Science and Medicine at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research for a screening of the New York Times' digital theatre performance, "Finish the Fight," which "shine[s] light on the Black, Asian, Latinx, Native American, and Queer women who were at the forefront of the suffrage movement in the United State," followed by a discussion with Dr. Evelynn Hammonds and Dr. Nancy Krieger on what women's suffrage meant for public health and health equity in...
Join award-winning Producer/Co-Director Paula J. Caplan in a discussion about the continued execution of persons with Intellectual Disabilities (low IQs) despite a 2002 SCOTUS ruling that such executions are illegal. Caplan, who is completing a film on the topic called Execution by the Numbers, will preview the trailer and join others in a conversation about this troubling reality.
Speakers: • Nancy Haydt, lawyer and Executive Director of Death Penalty Focus • Henderson Hill, Senior Counsel, ACLU’s Capital Punishment Project • Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director,...
