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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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]
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 […]
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 […]