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February 6, 2017
In this episode David Blight speaks with Bryan Stevenson, the founding director of the Equal Justice Initiative and the author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and...
January 30, 2017
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition is pleased to announce “Slavery and Its Legacies,” a new podcast series featuring visiting...
December 5, 2016
CONTACT: Michelle Zacks 203-432-3339 gilder.lehrman.center@y...
October 27, 2016
  Less than a week before the U.S. presidential election, the Gilder Lehrman Center will host a panel discussion titled “The Right to Vote: Protection or Suppression Since...
October 19, 2016
Interview with Tammy Ingram, Robina Fellow in Modern Slavery October 17, 2016 With the help of a major grant from the Minneapolis-based Robina Foundation, the Center is now...
October 18, 2016
Equal Protection: Origins and Legacies of the Fourteenth Amendment  (Short Film and Film Clips) On March 31, 2016, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the passage of the...
September 29, 2016
Screening of Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation There will be a special screening of The Birth of a Nation at 7pm on Oct. 6 at the Whitney Humanities Center. A post-...