John Nichols — The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace’s Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist Politics
September 22, 2020 
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Chris Whipple — The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future
September 17, 2020 VIDEO
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Hunter at Home — The Presidents Vs. The Press: From the Founding Fathers to Fake News
September 1, 2020
Join us as Harold Holzer, Jonathan F. Fanton Director of The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, and John Avlon, Senior Political Analyst for CNN, dive into Holzer’s... Read more
Jill Watts — The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
August 10, 2020 VIDEO
Roosevelt House presents a live Zoom discussion of the new book The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt by Jill Watts. The author tells the story of a generation... Read more
Join us on Thursday, August 6 at 6:30pm (EDT) on Zoom for our series Speaking of Justice: Race, Racism, and Reform — Code Switching: Style, Expression, or Survival?
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Join us on Thursday, July 30 at 6:30pm (EDT) on Zoom for our new series Speaking of Justice: Race, Racism, and Reform — Hunter Alumni Advancing Racial Equity
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Join us on Thursday, July 23 at 6:30pm on Zoom for our new series Speaking of Justice: Race, Racism, and Reform — Health Care for All? Confronting the Racial Divide
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America Through Foreign Eyes
July 14, 2020 VIDEO
Roosevelt House presents a live Zoom discussion of Jorge G. Castañeda’s America Through Foreign Eyes, a timely new exploration of America’s shifting political and cultural realities from the perspective of a deeply informed, often... Read more
Roosevelt House and the LGBTQ Policy Center at Hunter College present a live Zoom webinar onThe Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America, the new biography of Frank Kameny, the founder and... Read more
Hunter@Home — Remembering Larry Kramer
June 17, 2020
With Bill Goldstein, Author and Founding editor of the books site of The New York Times on the Web, and host of Bill’s Books on WNBC. And Charles Kaiser, Acting Director of Hunter College’s LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt... Read more
Remembering the AIDS Crisis in the Time of COVID-19: How Lessons from One Epidemic can Guide the Response to Another
June 10, 2020 VIDEO
With remarks by Carmelyn P. Malalis, Chair and Commissioner of the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
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The Roosevelt House Public Policy Program Presents:
Modeling COVID-19:
Disease Burdens, Economic Activities, and Policy Outcomes
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The Moral Imperative to Center Racial Equity and Justice in Education During the Pandemic
May 22, 2020 VIDEO
Statistics show that Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in the United States are disproportionality impacted by COVID 19. This reality is not only true for health outcomes, but also for educational outcomes. Prior to COVID 19,... Read more
Join Roosevelt House, Asian American Studies Center & Program, AANAPISI Project (HCAP), Department of Sociology, Department of Urban Policy and Planning on zoom for a sneak Preview of “The Asian Americans” with Renee Tajima-Pena,... Read more
As the coronavirus pandemic reveals stark fault lines in New York City, with disparate impacts based on race, class, immigration status, and justice system involvement, community organizations are mobilizing to respond even as their resources... Read more
The Discriminatory Impact of COVID-19: The Pandemic’s Role in Highlighting Entrenched Racial Inequalities in the U.S.
May 1, 2020 VIDEO
Presented by The Roosevelt House Human Rights Program, the Hunter Department of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies, and the Hunter Asian American Studies Center and Program.
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COVID-19, Cities, and Climate Change: Revelations, Ambitions, and Public Policy in a Pandemic World
April 30, 2020 VIDEO
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Campus ERA Day 2020
April 27, 2020
Join Us For Our Fourth Annual
CAMPUS ERA DAY 2020Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex
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The Reality of the Coronavirus Pandemic for the American Medical System – Online Event
April 16, 2020 VIDEO
Please Join Roosevelt House & the Hunter College Department of Public Health
for a Live Online Public Program Via Zoom
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Awakening in Tomorrow’s Post-Pandemic World: Economic Policy in the Aftermath of COVID-19
April 7, 2020 VIDEO
The Public Policy Program and the Hunter College Economics Department present
Awakening in Tomorrow’s Post-Pandemic World:
Economic Policy in the Aftermath of... Read more
Virtual Brownbag: Responding to COVID-19
March 25, 2020 VIDEO
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This event has been postponed.
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The Annual Phyllis L. Kossoff Lecture featuring Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and author of “No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History.”
March 10, 2020 VIDEO
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2020: Gender, Race, Suffrage, and Citizenship
March 6, 2020 VIDEO
2020: Gender, Race, Suffrage and Citizenship will critically examine the movement that led to women receiving the right to vote in the United States
Adam Hochschild — Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
March 3, 2020 VIDEO
Please join Roosevelt House and the Hunter College Jewish Studies Center as we welcome author Adam Hochschild to discuss his new book, Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes,... Read more
Adam Cohen — Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America
March 2, 2020 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we welcome New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen to discuss his new book, Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America. This... Read more
Craig Fehrman — Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and The Books They Wrote
February 25, 2020 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we welcome journalist and historian Craig Fehrman to discuss his well-received new book, Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote, the story of... Read more
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández — Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants
February 18, 2020 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we welcome César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, associate professor of law at the University of Denver, to discuss his new book, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking... Read more
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