Racial Discrimination
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Speech in Chicago
The more closely one looks at the cost and deployment of our crime prevention efforts, the more apparent it becomes that we have put too much responsibility at the end of the line, rather than at the beginning. Enforcement and correction can only do part of the job.
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Speech at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Interfaith Chapel at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia
It is still true that a non-white mother is four times as likely to die in childbirth as a white mother. There are 2.6 deaths per 10,000 live white births. The figure for nonwhites is 10.2 deaths.
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Speech in South Africa
In the past five years the winds of change have blown as fiercely in the United States as anywhere in the world, and they will not—they cannot—abate.
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
I come here because of my deep interest and affection for a land settled by the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century, then taken over by the British, and at last independent; a land in which the native inhabitants were at first subdued
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Speech at Indiana University Medical School
Let me say something about the tenor of that question and some of the other questions. There are people in this country who suffer. I look around this room and I don’t see many black faces who are going to be doctors
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Address at the Sixth Annual Westside Community Conference, Columbia University, New York City
In our country it is no longer enough to count the poor, to sympathize with the Negro struggle for equality, to watch with sadness the decay of our urban life. We must acknowledge—and do something to change the facts of our present life.
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Aaron Maybin
Born in Baltimore City, Maryland, in 1988, Maybin competed as an All-American linebacker at Penn State University before being chosen as the 11th overall pick in the 2009 NFL draft by the Buffalo Bills. After a five-year career with the New York Jets and the Cincinnati Bengals, he chose to leave the NFL in 2014…
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Bryan Stevenson
Born in 1959, Bryan Stevenson grew up in rural southern Delaware and spent his early classroom years at a “colored” elementary school. By second grade, his school was formally desegregated, but Black kids still played separately from white kids and often continued to use the back door to enter the doctor’s office. Stevenson’s father took…
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Bedford-Stuyvesant
In 1964, with the cooperation of fellow senator Jacob Javits and Mayor John Lindsay, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy set into motion the Special Impact Program, an amendment to the Economic Opportunity Act of the same year. A study of the problems facing Bedford-Stuyvesant, the city’s largest non-white community, was launched in 1967, and RFK subsequently…
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Dr. Rami Nashashibi
Rami Nashashibi was born in Amman, Jordan, lived in Spain, Saudi Arabia, and Italy during his teenage years, and moved to Chicago at age 19. There he earned a B.A. from DePaul University in 1995 and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 2010. Nashashibi is a MacArthur Fellow and the founder…
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Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is one of the world’s most revered statesmen, who led the struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multiracial democracy. Jailed for 27 years, he emerged to become the country’s first black President and to play a leading role in the drive for peace in other spheres of conflict.…
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Van Jones
Van Jones is the founding director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Founded in 1996 and named for an unsung civil rights heroine, the Center challenges human rights abuses in the U.S. criminal justice system. A project of the Ella Baker Center, Bay Area Police Watch is committed to stopping police misconduct and…
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