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Human rights careers forum gives students a look at career options

SMU Daily Campus Originally Posted: February 19, 2016 Passion and encouragement filled McCord Auditorium Thursday night as several SMU alumni gathered to talk to current students about careers in human rights. With the central theme of “there is no such thing as a lesser person,” the alumni made it clear to students that a career […]

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Embrey Human Rights Program’s efforts to honor a long-neglected Holocaust site near Lublin, Poland, spurs a journalist and community leader to ensure the place is respected by locals.

Storify Originally Posted: January 3, 2016 Sign of Change for Holocaust Remembrance in Poland Dr. Vicki Hill, Assistant Dean for University Curriculum at SMU, recently assisted Embrey Human Rights Program Director Rick Halperin in leading 30 members of the SMU/DFW community on the program’s annual Holocaust study trip to Poland. The unique immersive two-week experience […]

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Embrey Human Rights Program Director Rick Halperin Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

SMU News Originally Posted: December 11, 2015 As tribute to 30 years of teaching at SMU and five-plus decades of social activism, the Dallas Peace & Justice Center has awarded Embrey Human Rights Program Director Rick Halperin with a Lifetime Achievement Award. During his acceptance speech at a celebration dinner Dec. 3, Halperin turned the […]

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Embrey Human Rights Program Director honored for human rights work

SMU Daily Campus Originally Posted: December 2, 2015 Rick Halperin, director of SMU’s Embrey Human Rights program, is being recognized by the Dallas Peace and Justice Center on Thursday, Dec. 3 at the Annual Peace and Justice Maker Awards Dinner. He will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work defending people’s rights to dignity […]

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Rick Halperin, Embrey Human Rights Program, receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Originally Posted: December 1, 2015 Congratulations to Rick Halperin, Director of SMU’s Embrey Human Rights Program Dr. Halperin will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award for his Human Rights work at the Annual Peace & Justice Maker Awards Dinner on Thursday, December 3. Dr. Rick Halperin has spent his entire life defending and advocating the idea that there […]

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Pioneers of integration emphasize education, civility at SMU

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: November 12, 2015 Four pioneers of integration gathered at Southern Methodist University on Thursday night to discuss their experiences as the first African American students on southern campuses, current race relations and the importance of education. The panel spoke as part of the Embrey Human Rights Program, which on Thursday […]

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Embrey Human Rights Program hosts four of the first African Americans to integrate Southern colleges Nov. 12

Park Cities Blog Originally Posted: Nov. 11, 2015 Unique Database of Integration Pioneers To Be Unveiled at Public Event James Meredith, Vivian Malone and James Hood may be the best-known African Americans to integrate Southern colleges, but SMU’s Embrey Human Rights Program will introduce four important, but lesser-known, trailblazers at a free public event at […]

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Watch: Roberto Corona, EHRP, comments on a statement by Governor Greg Abbott

Roberto Corona of the Embrey Human Rights Program, comments on a Nov. 4 statement by Governor Greg Abbott that if Texas sheriffs do not cooperate with federal immigration authorities, they could face loss of state grant money [youtube]https://youtu.be/5qm0nbRQDYE[/youtube]

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Congrats to Dedman College student Karly Zrake, first Human Rights Scholar to honor Santos Rodriguez

CBS News Originally Posted: November 2, 2015 DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – SMU has awarded the first recipient of the Santos Rodriguez Memorial Scholarship in honor of a 12-year-old whose 1973 shooting death by a Dallas police officer briefly imprisoned for the crime remains one of the nation’s most troubling civil rights incidents. It goes to sophomore […]

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Dallas mother of Santos Rodriguez visits Seattle park named for her son

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: November 2, 2015 SEATTLE–As Bessie Rodriguez visited this Pacific Northwest city on Monday, her son Santos was memorialized as everyone’s child — some 42 years after his Dallas death. Remember his tomorrows in each day, said Seattle’s civic poet Claudia Castro Luna, as his mother gazed up at her in […]