social justice

The Film Studies Program at Boston College sponsored a film screening of four student-produced documentary films on Friday night. Funded by the Jacques Salmanowitz Program for Moral Courage in Documentary Film and the LaMattina Family Grant for Social Justice Film, each short documentary ...

For Kristin Antkoviak, plants and trees are one way to achieve social justice. Antkoviak, who is graduating with a master's degree in landscape architecture, has used her expertise to help revitalize her Phoenix neighborhood. And in connecting her neighbors with a little bit of nature, she's carving out a new ...

Nadine Marsh-Carter has been named the 2018 recipient of the Pat Asch Fellowship for Social Justice. ... of Virginia and a former member of the Richmond School Board, will receive $17,500 to extend her social justice work in the Richmond community by addressing the challenge of equity in philanthropy.

Grace is the instructor for a year-long UA course called Documenting Justice in which students are guided through the process of conceptualizing and directing a short documentary centered around social justice. One student posed that Documenting Justice is the most important display of the arts at UA.

In explaining the history of social justice since the Women's Rights Movement and the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, Chief Elk also identified issues in the legal system and nonprofits, stating that while both can provide great resources for survivors, there is also backlash that harms marginalized communities in ...

Former Gov. Phil Hoff fought for social justice and equality throughout his life, another former Vermont governor said Friday. "He was a fine gentleman, someone who served our state well, ahead of his time in some areas," Jim Douglas said. "All Vermonters are in his debt, and grateful for his service to our ...

Students at Whitman care a great deal about social justice issues that primarily do not affect them. In contrast to communities of color from underprivileged backgrounds, students at Whitman are (at least for now) primarily white and privileged. So when these students speak on behalf of/about the injustices ...

Massive resistance has become a hallmark of American life under the Trump administration. Millions of people have clogged airports to protest Trump's travel and refugee ban, stood with indigenous people at Standing Rock, and taken to the streets in the Women's Marches, the March for Science, and the ...

Maybe it was the rumblings of social justice reverberating from the ecumenical Vatican II council in Rome. Or maybe it was the inconvenient question posed by her son Joseph one day in 1965, when he turned to her despairingly from the brutal television images of blacks being mistreated in the South and ...

However, there is arguably an even more fundamental issue for why psychology must persist in studying and democratizing its health disparities research - it's a social justice issue! The issue of health disparities is about social justice because every person should have the right to enjoy optimal health ...