CIVIL RIGHTS DAY - Wednesday, February 26, 2025 Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus Civil Rights Day is an all-day event which examines some of the major civil rights issues of today. It is held in February to commemorate the anniversary of the Woolworth’s lunch counter student sit-in in 1960.
8-9:25 a.m. - 246 East Library Wing, Axinn Library Dialogue and Breakfast: Let’s Talk About Free Speech
9:40-11:05 a.m. Panel Discussion:LGBTQIA+ Rights During a Second Trump Administration: What Can We Expect? Shortly after his inauguration President Trump signed a flurry of executive orders, several of which have implications for members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Join Hofstra Professor Lauris Wren, Director of LGBTQIA+ Fellowship Program, Deane School of Law, JuliGrey-Owens, Executive Director, Gender Equality New York, Inc. (GENY), and Charlie Arrowood, Senior Counsel to the Richard C. Failla LGBTQ Commission of the New York Court Systemin a discussion on what these and other actions by the new administration mean for the LGBTQIA+ community going forward.
11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Panel Discussion:Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD Join the conversation with Peabody-winner Chenjerai Kumanyika, Executive Producer & Story Editor of Empire City, Asad Dandia (interview subject from episode 7), and Hofstra Professor Alan Singer (interview subject from episode 2), around the series, Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD (already named one of the best shows of 2024), and the role of sensationalized news coverage in shaping present-day media and police narratives of law, violence, suspects, and crime.
1-2 p.m. - Plaza Room Middle and East, Mack Student Center Black Business Expo Panel featuring Hofstra student and local business owners. (BlackBusinessExpo-11a.m.-3p.m.,MackStudentCenterAtrium)
2:40-4:05p.m. Book presentation:Dreams Achieved and Denied: Mexican Intergenerational Mobility with Robert Courtney Smith, CUNY Graduate Center. For over 20 years, Smith followed the lives and mobility
of nearly one hundred children of Mexican immigrants in New York City. The talk examines the laws, policies, and individual and family practices that promoted-and inhibited their social mobility.
4:20-5:45 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Jeannette E. Jones, (Hofstra ’93 History), Happold Professor of History and Ethnic Studies; Director, 19th Century Studies Program, University of Nebraska.
Dr. Jones is a historian of the United States, with expertise in American Cultural and intellectual history, African American History and Studies and Pre-colonial Africa. Her research reflects her desire to contribute to the larger critical conversations taking place in these fields, specifically around the role of race in shaping American cultural and intellectual discourse and production.
6-7:30p.m.-EmilyLoweGallery,BehindEmilyLoweHall,SouthCampus(Seatingcappedat40guests) PerformanceandDiscussion:WhoAmINowbyHeidiLatskyDance,Inc. Join a performance and critical discussion with Heidi Latsky, Heidi Latsky Dance, Inc. (HLD) with dancers Nico Gonzales and Henry Holmes to honor Civil Rights Day. Heidi Latsky will share her recent journey through the discovery, surgery, and recovery from a benign brain tumor that had been there for 20 years. An in person performance featuring HLD dancers Gonzales and Holmes will be viewed to expose participants to the fierce vulnerability of HLD's dancers as she explains the trajectory of her career in inclusive dance. Organized by Hofstra University Museum of Art and the interdisciplinary Disability Studies program at Hofstra University.
These events are FREE and open to the public. To RSVP, visit events.hofstra.edu. For more information, please contact the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 or visit hofstra.edu/culture.