The third program in the ongoing series, "What Does the First Amendment Mean Today?", will be an online lecture by Dr. Gloria Browne-Marshall of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, examining the freedoms of speech and assembly from the Civil Rights era to the social justice protests of today. This program will be presented in Zoom on Sunday, October 3rd at 5:00pm.
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is a Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). She teaches classes in Constitutional Law, Race and the Law, Evidence, and Gender and Justice. She taught in the Africana Studies Program at Vassar College prior to John Jay. She is a civil rights attorney who litigated cases for Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc.
"What Does the First Amendment Mean Today?" is a program series examining the text, history, and current state of the First Amendment, created by the Ridgefield Library, the Ridgefield Historical Society, the League of Women Voters of Ridgefield, the Drum Hill Chapter of the DAR and Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center. This series is funded in part by a grant from Connecticut Humanities (CTH), an independent, non-profit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
“What Does the First Amendment Mean Today?” will conclude with a panel discussion in person at the Library on Sunday, October 10th at 5:00pm, moderated by author, journalist and lecturer Todd Brewster, and featuring the following notable panelists: Professor Akhil Amar of Yale; Nadine Strossen, past president of the ACLU; New York Times journalist Mike McIntire; and Ridgefield Library Director Brenda McKinley.
For more information and to register for any of the programs in the series, visit the Events Calendar at ridgefieldlibrary.org