Media Mentions
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Article
Now, 150 years after Trotter’s birth, the Trotter Collaborative is hosting a two-day event to introduce attendees to Trotter’s legacy and provide an opportunity to explore social justice work today.
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Press Release
Cornell Williams Brooks, former president and CEO of the NAACP, and Professor at Harvard Kennedy School will speak at Mississippi State University on Feb. 21, 2022.
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Press Release
Sibling Cities USA and the cities of Palo Alto, California and Bloomington, Indiana are hosting a virtual kickoff for the first-ever Sibling Cities relationship on February 15th. The Kickoff will feature a fireside chat with Cornell William Brooks.
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Harvard Professors Cornell William Brooks and Linda Bilmes are making a strong case for reparations for Black Americans with the argument that the U.S. is already designed to compensate a wide range of specific groups for their suffering.
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Latosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matters – client in Cornell William Brook’s spring 2022 class – comments on voting rights challenges.
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Interview
Cornell William Brooks discusses the Black faith leaders on a hunger strike for voting rights, and why he likens the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, to the Confederate attack at Fort Sumter.
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Interview
“It was extraordinarily painful to watch as an American and as an African American,” Cornell William Brooks blasts Sen. Marsha Blackburn for her remarks about a Black judicial nominee.
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Article
Cornell William Brooks,“… there is no set of circumstances, no reading of the law, no rendering of the imagination, in which a Black person could get away with this.”
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POLITICO Playbook
Cornell William Brooks responds to Rittenhouse verdict – “I don’t have to tell you this, there is no set of circumstances, no reading of the law, no rendering of the imagination, in which a Black person could get away with this.”
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Interview
Cornell William Brooks discussed how Rittenhouse case has become symbolic of the nation’s polarization over gun rights, racism, and police brutality.
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Interview
Harvard professor and former head of the NAACP Cornell William Brooks on “The Laura Coates Show”.
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Interview
Former president and CEO of the NAACP, Cornell William Brooks, discusses new calls from officials and activists to target the benefits and pensions of police officers accused of brutality.
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Cornell William Brooks responds to testimony of police chief in Chauvin trial.
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Interview
Cornell William Brooks talks about his new course “Creating Justice In Real Time: The Twin Pandemics of Police Brutality and COVID-19” in spring 2021.
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Cornell William Brooks comments on death of Congressman John Lewis, who had been battling cancer for months.
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Interview
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with former NAACP president and longtime Virginia resident Cornell Brooks about Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s blackface scandal in 2019.