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Embrey Human Rights Program names first scholar, Karly Zrake, to honor Santos Rodriguez

SMU HUMAN RIGHTS NAMES FIRST SCHOLAR TO HONOR SLAIN BOY, HELPS HIS MOTHER ATTEND NOV. 2 SEATTLE TRIBUTE Sophomore human rights and anthropology major Karly Zrake, active in community service since childhood, is SMU’s first recipient of the Santos Rodriguez Memorial Scholarship in honor of a 12-year-old whose 1973 shooting death by a Dallas police […]

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Roberto Corona, Embrey Human Rights Program, Seattle park honors 12-year-old killed by Dallas police in 1973

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: August 30, 2015 Seattle park honors Dallas 12-year-old killed by police At Santos Rodriguez Memorial Park, the playground draws children with its red-and-blue slides and green-and-yellow monkey bars. The lush gardens entice adults to stroll and smell the blooms. A plaque honors the memory of a boy killed by a […]

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SMU Adventures, Project Impact and Education in Guatemala

SMU Adventures Originally Posted: August 10, 2015 Follow Jennifer, Maguire Fellow in Guatemala. Jennifer is a senior majoring in human rights and public policy. She was awarded a Maguire and Irby Family Foundation Public Service Fellowship for summer 2015 from the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility at SMU for her work […]

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Embrey Human Rights Program, World Affairs Council to host McCullough, Kristof

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: Aug 6, 2015 Pulitzer Prize winners David McCullough and Nicholas Kristof are among the headliners who will be speaking this fall on behalf of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth. McCullough, the famed chronicler of American history, will discuss his latest book, The Wright Brothers, at noon Nov. 20 […]

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Death of 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez to be remembered this Friday in Dallas cemetery

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: July 23, 2015 Family and friends will gather this Friday morning to quietly honor the life of 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez, who was killed by a Dallas police officer 42 years ago. The boy’s mother and others will gather for prayer and flowers at his grave in Oakland Cemetery at 9 […]

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Rick Halperin, Embrey Human Rights Program, on the Supreme Court’s recent decision to allow death penalty states to use the controversial drug midazolam for execution:

Al Jazeera Originally Posted: June 29, 2015            

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10-day SMU trip reveals Wild West myths that obscure ‘theft, deception & genocide’ for Native Americans

DALLAS (SMU) — Thirteen SMU students, faculty and staff members are traveling the American West to better understand past and present struggles of our country’s “too often-forgotten indigenous people,” says Embrey Human Rights Program Director Rick Halperin, who is leading the June 2-12 trip. During the 10-day journey through Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, South […]

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American West Human Rights 2015

Thirteen SMU students and faculty and staff members will travel the American West June 2–12 to visit Native American reservations and historic sites “to study past and present struggles of our country’s indigenous people – all too often our forgotten people,” says Rick Halperin, director of SMU’s Embrey Human Rights Program, sponsoring the trip for […]

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Grad Ketetha Olengue: A heart-felt mission to help others

For SMU graduating senior Ketetha Olengue, wearing a pacemaker isn’t a hindrance. It’s what spurs her desire to help people battling both heart conditions and “the human condition,” she says. On Saturday, Ketetha will earn two degrees that will send her on her way to becoming a cardiologist: a B.S. in computer science from the […]

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Rick Halperin, Embrey Human Rights Program, quoted in Chronicle of Higher Education about the history of student hunger strikes

Chronicle of Higher Education The History — and Health Implications — of Student Hunger Strikes A hunger strike at Tufts University stretched into its sixth day on Friday, with five students refusing to eat until the administration reverses a decision to lay off 20 janitors. Tufts officials say the strikers, and a larger group of […]