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Activist
Cheryl
Brown
Henderson delivered a lecture
on the legacy of landmark
desegregation
Supreme
Court case Brown v. Board of
Education
before
hundreds
of people in the Michigan
League
Ballroom
Monday
afternoon. The talk was part
of the University of Michigan’s
Martin
Luther
King
Jr.
Symposium.
Brown Henderson is the
daughter of lead plaintiff Oliver
Brown in Brown v. Board
of Education and founding
president
of
The
Brown
Foundation
for
Educational
Equity,
Excellence
and
Research. The foundation aims
to uphold the decision made in
Brown v. Board and provides
scholarships
to
minority
students.
She said Brown v. Board’s
legal
and
cultural
impact
is huge in this country, and
continues to protect key rights.
“Brown represents the need
to have this country live up to
its
constitutional
principles
and its founding documents
and all of the things you know
were not originally intended
for us,” Brown Henderson
said. “Brown v. Board basically
defended the sovereign power
of all of us in this room as U.S.
citizens not to have our rights
arbitrarily restricted by state
and local governments.”
Brown Henderson tied her
experiences as a teacher to
the Symposium’s theme, “The
(Mis)Education of US.” The
theme aims to address how
minority groups and their
experiences are often sidelined,
and how this can lead to bias
and discrimination.
“We don’t understand the
importance
of
teachers,”
Brown
Henderson
said.
“Teachers are the bedrock, and
you cannot build a skyscraper
without bedrock. If you take
the teachers out of the mix, it
would be utter chaos.”
Rackham student Naitnaphit
Limlamai told The Daily after
the event that she agreed with
Brown Henderson from her
vantage point as a high school
English teacher for 13 years.
“They do these studies where
everyone loves the school in
their district, but overall they
think the schools are awful in
the United States,” Limlamai
said. “How is that possible if
everyone thinks their school
district is awesome?
Around 10 Friends of Ann
Arbor
Wildlife
in
Nature
members protested the city’s
fifth
annual
deer
cull
on
Saturday
afternoon
along
Washtenaw Avenue.
The controversial deer cull
is a city-organized program
meant to control the deer
overpopulation
through
sharpshooting and sterilization.
FAAWN members also protested
against the beginning of last
year’s deer cull.
Despite
freezing
temperatures and icy conditions,
FAAWN member Terry Abrams
said he held signs for an hour to
raise awareness of the deer cull
and their opposition to it.
“We’re here for a number
of reasons,” Abrams said. “We
oppose the killing of wildlife in
the city. We think it’s morally
wrong to kill the deer. We also
think it is a waste of taxpayer
money.”
Abrams
said
he
believes
the city of Ann Arbor misused
metrics and statistical data in
calculating the deer population,
which he claimed led to a
renewal of the sharpshooter
contract.
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Joseph C. Hill, professor at
the National Technical Institute
for the Deaf, spoke on the stigma
surrounding sign language and
the discrimination that follows on
Friday evening. The University of
Michigan Linguistics Department
hosted the event, drawing an
audience of about 200 students
and professors.
The
talk,
titled
“Black,
Deaf and Disabled: Navigating
the
Institutional,
Ideological
and
Linguistic
Barriers
with
Intersectional Identities in the
United States,” was presented by
Hill in American Sign Language,
with a translator communicating
the talk to audience members who
do not know ASL.
Hill spoke about research that
confirmed a variation in Black and
White American Sign Language
and the need to increase the
number of Black deaf students in
ASL classes. He also commented
on a lack of awareness on what
makes Black ASL unique.
“We need interpreting and
deaf education to understand how
they connect with the Black deaf
community because this is a part
of American history as well,” Hill
said.
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stigma of
using ASL
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Joseph C. Hill gives
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Cheryl Brown Henderson explores
Brown vs. Board of Education
Daughter of lead plaintiff talks lasting legacy of Supreme Court case
Residents
protest
against
deer cull
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Cheryl Brown Henderson, daughter of Reverend Oliver L. Brown, one of the 12 parents who filed a suit against the Board of Education, speaks at the Martin Luther King,
Jr. Symposium about the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education at the Michigan League Ballroom Moday afternoon.
CALDER LEWIS
Daily Staff Reporter
FAAWN organizes
demonstration in
opposition of killing
wildlife in Ann Arbor
See BROWN , Page 3A
Angela Davis discusses
prison reform, civil rights
“It is important for us to learn
how to pay tribute to those whose
names we don’t necessarily know,”
activist and Martin Luther King Jr.
symposium keynote speaker Angela
Davis said in her lecture Monday
morning at Hill Auditorium.
“And to recognize that the agents
of history are not so much the leaders
and the spokespeople but rather
the masses of people who develop a
collective imagination regarding the
possibility of a new future.”
Hill Auditorium was filled to
capacity for Davis, a prominent
activist, author and distinguished
Professor Emerita at the University
of California, Santa Cruz.
The
Office
of
Academic
Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI),
among other University of Michigan
departments,
sponsored
The
Martin Luther King
Jr.
symposium.
The theme of the
symposium was “The
(Mis)Education
of
US.”
Davis has taught
at
the
University
of
California,
Los
Angeles,
Syracuse
University,
Vassar
College,
Stanford
University
and
others. Davis is also
the author of novels
such as “Are Prisons Obsolete?” and
a collection of essays called “The
Meaning of Freedom.”
Davis was once on the Federal
Bureau of Investigation’s Ten Most-
Wanted Fugitives list and a registered
member of the Communist Party for
over 30 years. She was also involved
with the Black Panther Party and
feminist movements.
The anticipated turnout was
accounted for by overflow rooms in
the Michigan League and Hatcher
Auditorium.
Robert
M. Sellers, vice
provost
for
Equity and
Inclusion, and University President
Mark Schissel provided opening
remarks before Davis took the stage.
JASMIN LEE
Daily Staff Reporter
Prominent activist featured as MLK keynote speaker
See DAVIS, Page 3
Susan Rice shares experience
as woman of color in politics
Former UN ambassador gives insight on Benghazi, Iran
In commemoration of Martin
Luther King Jr. Day, Susan
Rice, former United Nations
Ambassador and former National
Security Advisor, recalled her
favorite quote by Dr. King: “The
arc of the moral universe is long,
but it bends towards justice.”
The quote was woven along the
edges of the Oval Office carpet at
the beginning of
the
Obama
Administration.
Ambassador
Rice said the quote was the
guiding principle of her life in
public service.
“Nobody is going to do the
hard bending, if not you and me,”
Rice said.
On
Monday
afternoon,
hundreds
of
students
and
community members including
Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich.,
filled
Annenberg
Auditorium
and dozens packed into overflow
rooms in the Ford
School of Public
Policy to hear
Rice.
Rice
has
spent
decades
in public service,
most
recently
serving as the
U.S.
National
Security Advisor
from 2013 to 2017
and U.S.
Permanent Representative in the
United Nations from 2009 to 2013
in the Obama administration.
The event was a collaboration
between the MLK Jr. Symposium
and
the
Weiser
Diplomacy
Center. Michael S. Barr, dean
of the Public Policy School and
a former colleague of Rice,
moderated
the
conversation
and the student Q&A session.
During the talk, Rice discussed
her foreign policy decisions, the
2012 Benghazi scandal and the
challenges she faced as a woman
of color.
Rice
began
by
discussing
the title of her new book,
“Tough Love: My Story of the
Things Worth Fighting For.”
Rice credited tough love as an
aspect of leadership that has
encompassed her personal and
professional life.
“Tough love means loving
fiercely but not uncritically.
It means that when you care
deeply about somebody,”
Rice
said.
“You
care
enough to give them your
unvarnished truth. And do
it from the vantage point of
someone who has their best
interests at heart. (It’s) how
I’ve tried to serve our country.
I love this country passionately,
but I believe we have and do and
will make mistakes. And we
need to acknowledge
them and learn from
them.”
JULIA FANZERES
Daily Staff Reporter
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