United States [1976-present]
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'Jena 6' Teen Agrees to a Plea Deal(CNN, December 3, 2007) According to this news update about Jena 6, Mychal Bell, the 17-year-old black teenager whose arrest and detention led to the "Jena 6" protests, has agreed to a plea deal that could lead to his release by June. | Facing Today | 04/10/2008 - 16:22 |
A Problem from Hell: A Conversation with Samantha Power, Part 4Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of Practice Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, discusses the Genocide Convention and the genesis of the term "genocide," coined by Rafael Lemkin in 1944. | Video Clip | 03/13/2008 - 11:16 |
Anthony Lewis Speaks about Free SpeechJournalist Anthony Lewis discusses a Supreme Court decision about freedom of speech: journalists are protected from the threat of libel in reporting about events such as the civil rights movement. | Video Clip | 07/01/2008 - 15:59 |
Antisemitism: The Power of Myth"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1918 Antisemitism is on the rise. | Facing Today | 02/24/2008 - 10:31 |
Antisemitism: The Power of Myth - A Student MovementUniversities have long been places where ideas, theories, and even long-held truths are scrutinized and often hotly debated with each side mustering proof in support of its position. Such debates are central to the work of a university-the advancement of knowledge and the search for truth. | Facing Today | 02/24/2008 - 10:59 |
Antisemitism: The Power of Myth - Academic FreedomIn the television series The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski, a scientist and humanist, describes universities as places where individuals come together not "to worship what is known but to question it. | Facing Today | 02/24/2008 - 11:01 |
Antisemitism: The Power of Myth - Confronting AntisemitismWhat responsibilities does a society have to protect everyone in the community or nation? To what extent is a crime against one group in a community a crime against the community as a whole? In the foreword to a report on antisemitism in Europe published by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Executive Director Michael Posner reflected on those questions: A year ago the United Nations convened the third World Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa. | Facing Today | 02/24/2008 - 10:48 |
Antisemitism: The Power of Myth - Education in a DemocracyConversation, discussion, and debate are central not only to universities but also to democracies. Such exchanges depend on a free and independent press that takes its responsibilities seriously. They also depend on informed citizens willing to listen to and learn from one another. | Facing Today | 02/24/2008 - 11:04 |
Antisemitism: The Power of Myth - More than a LieThe Introduction described some slanders as not merely lies but "malignant new myths" that link "classic anti-Jewish slanders with contemporary anti-Israel politics." How do such myths become weapons in a war of words? What power do words have to turn neighbor against neighbor? Nowhere have these questions been more heatedly debated than on college campuses, places where young people traditionally encounter new ideas and are encouraged to challenge old truths. | Facing Today | 02/24/2008 - 10:50 |
Antisemitism: The Power of Myth - Rumors, Lies, and the MediaWhen Adolf Hitler came to power in the 1930s, he used "the blood libel" and other myths to justify the Holocaust. Julius Streicher, a staunch member of the Nazi party and the publisher of the magazine Der Stürmer, gave life to those charges. | Facing Today | 02/24/2008 - 10:53 |
