Speaking of Justice — Election 2020. Who has the answers? Students ask the questions.
November 2, 2020
Join us on Monday, November 2 at 6:30pm (EST) on Zoom for our series Speaking of Justice: Race, Racism, and Reform — ELECTION 2020. Who has the answers? Students ask the questions.
A Roosevelt House Dialogue with Hunter... Read more
David E. Sanger and John Maggio — The Perfect Weapon
October 29, 2020 
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Politics, Partisanship, and the 2020 Elections: Fresh Perspectives from Hunter’s Political Science Department
October 27, 2020 VIDEO
This November marks the 59th presidential election in the United States. It has been, as commentators often say, “unprecedented.” Indeed, there have been—and surely will continue to be—newsworthy fireworks. Some are... Read more
U. S. Senator Sherrod Brown — Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America
October 22, 2020 VIDEO
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Climate Change and Cultural Extinction: A Human Rights Crisis
October 21, 2020 VIDEO
The United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights and the Human Rights Program at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College present
Climate Change and Cultural Extinction: A Human Rights... Read more
Charles A. Kupchan — Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World
October 14, 2020 VIDEO
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Election 2020: Insights on Activism from Gen Z
October 14, 2020 VIDEO
Born after 1996, Gen Z is the most racially diverse and digitally connected generation in the U.S., and its members’ formative years have been defined by recession, mass shootings, climate crisis, and war. Now, as the 2020 election approaches... Read more
The 2020 Jack Newfield Lecture — Celebrating the Publication of Wayne Barrett’s Without Compromise: The Brave Journalism that First Exposed Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and the American Epidemic of Corruption
October 8, 2020 VIDEO
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Roosevelt House is Pleased to Present:
The 2020 Jack Newfield Lecture — Celebrating the publication of Wayne... Read more
David Michaelis — Eleanor: A Biography
October 7, 2020 VIDEO
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Speaking of Justice — Policing: Reform, Defund, or Abolish?
October 1, 2020 VIDEO
Join us on Thursday, October 1 at 6:30pm (EDT) on Zoom for our series Speaking of Justice: Race, Racism, and Reform — Policing: Reform, Defund, or Abolish?
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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 VIDEO
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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 VIDEO
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.
On June 10th at 7PM, the LGBTQ Policy Center at Hunter College and the... Read more
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
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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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