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 […]
Category: Human Rights Events
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]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Al Jazeera Originally Posted: June 29, 2015
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 […]