Tag: Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice

  • Nation & World

    How they remember ‘Tree’

    Those who knew civil rights scholar, legendary public defender, and voice for equality recall his kindness, generosity, and homemade sweet-potato pie.

    13 minutes
    Charles Ogletree walks past crowd of well-wishers including an applauding former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.
  • Nation & World

    Rewriting history — to include all of it this time

    “A Conversation on Tulsa and the Long History of Dispossession of African Americans: What We Don’t Know” focused on the race issues dividing the United States — and the possibility that open discussion could move us forward.

    5 minutes
    Tulsa resident being taken to the Brady Theater.
  • Nation & World

    The Civil Rights lawyer who paved the path

    On the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the Gazette sat down with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, the faculty director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, to talk about Houston, architect of the legal campaign that led to the 1954 landmark Supreme Court ruling that ended legal segregation in public schools.

    8 minutes
    Tomiko Brown-Nagin.
  • Nation & World

    After Ferguson’s fury

    A panel convened by HLS professor Charles Ogletree reflected on the broad social, legal, and political issues raised by the protests in Ferguson, Mo., last month.

    4 minutes