Standing Our Ground: Civil Rights, Justice and the Law

Professor Charles Ogletree will moderate the discussion with a panel of distinguished leaders sharing critical perspectives on American civil rights and shedding new light on a growing number of controversial "Stand Your Ground" laws. Add your voice during this important forum. Hosting the conversation in the African Meeting House will honor the memory of black and white abolitionists who stood their ground for human rights, just laws, and equal education centuries before the modern civil rights movement. PANELISTS Charles Ogletree, moderator Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, Founder and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, and Founder and Emeritus Director of the Criminal Justice Institute, Harvard Law School. Michael Curry President of the NAACP Boston Branch; recently elected to serve on the NAACP National Board. Avi Green Co-chair of Scholars Strategy Network Working Group on Protecting and Expanding the Right to Vote; former Executive Director (2006 - 2012) of MassVote. Mariama White-Hammond Former Executive Director (2001 - 2014) of Project HIP-HOP, which connects Greater Boston-area young people with the living history of the Civil Rights Movement.