Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Contains materials related to public programs during the time period, except for Awards and Colloquia which have separate series.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Contains materials related to public programs during the time period, except for Awards and Colloquia which have separate series.

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with the Jones Family Singers, based in Bay City, Texas, brought together three generations of musicians and vocalists to pay tribute to the legendary civil rights leader

Abstract Film Screening Collaboration with Aurora Picture ShowBeing outside often feels magical – the fresh air, the green space, the limitless possibilities for adventure. For children, it is a place for mystery and imagination. For adults, it is more often a setting for working and living. Even then, however, the outdoors still retains bits of magic and grandeur, ready to relax and thrill one at a moment’s notice. Bring your blankets and picnic baskets for an outdoor screening of...

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Speak Truth to Power series. Wright, former US Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Mongolia, resigned in March 2003 due to her disagreement with the Bush Administration’s decision to go to war in Iraq, its policies on unnecessary curtailment of rights in America, its lack of efforts in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its lack of policy on North Korea

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Marcela Olivera International Liaison; Shannon Marquez PhD Assistant Professor Department of Environ Sciences- University of Texas School of Public Health; Dennis S. Wales, MD, Assistant Professor in Dept of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; moderator Winifred J. Hamilton PhD, SM, Director of the Environmental Health Section Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine. Part of Fotofest

Abstract Join in remembering the lives of migrants who died in their attempts to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The Day of the Dead is the time to invoke, welcome, and celebrate loved ones who have died. This year, the Rothko Chapel honors those who died in South Texas as a result of militarized borders. Last year 129 migrant bodies were recovered in Brooks County, 60-miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. More than 70 have died so far this year. These deaths add to the thousands of migrant border...

Abstract Film Screening and Dialogue Heather Courtney Suggested donation $10In light of the withdrawal of the majority of combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, Where Soldiers Come From is a timely, Emmy-award winning documentary by Heather Courtney that follows the four-year journey of childhood friends forever changed by America’s longest war. Where Soldiers Come From looks beyond the guns and policies of an ongoing war to tell a human story about family, friendship, and...

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Martha Merritt

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Presented by Senator Javid Iqbal