TheADL presented its Milton Popkin Award to Mayor Annise Parker at its Southwest Regional board meeting on October 22 at Tony’s Restaurant. The Popkin Award recognizes individuals and institutions who have made a unique contribution toward furthering the mission of ADL, and toward translating our country’s ideals into a way of life for all Americans and toward promoting intergroup relations.
350 students and 75 educators attended the 2014 Beau and Abe Merfish No Place for Hate® Youth Summit at South Texas College of Law October 24. The Youth Summit began with a performance of True Confessions of a Bully by the Dionysus Theatre Troupe, which features actors with disabilities alongside actors who are able-bodied. Students then went to breakout sessions
The Anti-Defamation League has sent a letter to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, expressing disappointment that the foundation is holding its Houston Race for the Cure on Yom Kippur. ADL sent the letter to the Foundation’s local executive director, Adriana Higgins.
Stephen B. Bright, a Yale Law School Professor and President and Senior Council at the Southern Center for Human Rights, will speak on “The Death Penalty for the Marginalized—and the Complicity that Makes it Possible,” from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 16 in Courtroom 11-B at the Houston Federal Courthouse, 515 Rusk Avenue, Houston, TX 77002. Bright has
Eighty people attended a breakfast earlier this month to begin ADL’s 2014 Summer Associates Research Project (SARP), during which law firms allow summer associates to research questions provided by ADL that relate to the agency’s mission. Houston City Attorney David Feldman gave the breakfast’s keynote speech. He talked to the associates about the process of passing the Houston Equal
