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(03/18/25 10:00am)
The Waltham Police Department is at the forefront of innovative mental health-centered law enforcement practices, setting a precedent for community policing in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. With the integration of certified mental health specialists — officially titled Jail Diversion Clinicians — into its ranks, the department has taken significant strides in the implementation of de-escalation and crisis intervention techniques.
(04/16/24 10:00am)
On April 11, the Brandeis Equal Justice Initiative organized a movie screening of “The Prison in Twelve Landscapes,” followed by a discussion with two panelists in Golding Judaica. The programming was facilitated by BEJI co-directors Prof. Rosalind Kabrhel (LGLS) and Prof. David Sherman (ENG).
(04/16/24 10:00am)
Program Administrator for Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies and Department Coordinator for Chemistry Mangok Bol came to the United States in 2001 as a refugee of the Second Sudanese Civil War after having spent 13 years in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya from the ages of nine to 22. He came to the U.S. as a part of the Lost Boys and Girls program, which resettled children who were orphaned or separated from their parents in the war. Bol’s story was covered in The Boston Globe, National Public Radio, The Justice and BrandeisNOW.
(04/02/24 10:00am)
On March 31, the Brandeis Asian American Student Association held its second event to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. This year's theme of “Reflection” aims to “celebrate the efforts by our predecessors to create an hospitable and safe environment for AAPI,” an Instagram caption from BAASA’s account states. Sunday’s event included a screening of “Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story,” followed by a question and answer session with director Jennifer Takaki.
(03/12/24 10:00am)
On Feb. 16, two individuals from Russia who embodied the essence of resistance passed away: Alexei Navalny, an outspoken opposition politician, and Dmitry Markov, a renowned photographer and social worker.
(02/06/24 11:00am)
On Dec. 7, 2023, a hit-and-run crash took place on Totten Paul Road in Waltham. This accident caused the deaths of National Grid employee Roderick Jackson and Waltham police officer Paul Tracey.
(12/05/23 11:00am)
Gloria Estefan is a Cuban American woman who broke down boundaries and changed the music industry forever. Both her music and her story have deeply impacted me, inspiring me to give 100% of myself to both my art and everything else in my life. I have always been amazed with her ability to balance motherhood, a successful career, and the challenges that life has thrown her way; I aspire to one day hold some of these qualities myself.
(11/07/23 11:00am)
For the past month, tensions on campus have been steadily rising as a result of the Israel-Hamas war and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. This conflict is not a new debate at the University, but it has been exacerbated by the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and Israel’s subsequent declaration of war against Hamas. While President Ron Liebowitz has released various statements condemning Hamas’ attacks and expressing support for the community, the University had not taken decisive actions concerning the conflict. However, on Nov. 6, the administration derecognized the Brandeis chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, eliciting strong reactions from the community on multiple sides of the issue.
(10/17/23 10:00am)
In the midst of the ongoing violence between Israel and Hamas, the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies organized an event titled “Teach-In: War in Israel, Reflections from Brandeis Faculty.” Featuring esteemed members of Brandeis faculty, the event aimed to provide intellectual insight and scholarly perspectives on the complex dynamics surrounding the conflict, offering the Brandeis community a platform to navigate the challenging discussions surrounding the war.
(03/21/23 10:00am)
(11/01/22 10:00am)
On Oct. 26, Provost Carol A. Fierke presented Dr. Carol Anderson the Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize.
(03/22/22 5:45pm)
Violence has been on-going for over five years due to infighting among Anglophone separatist in Cameroon. This conflict all started in 2016, with peaceful protests initiated by lawyers and teachers demanding linguistic reform, which rapidly escalated into a war of secession. Protesters were assaulted, attacked with tear gas, imprisoned, and killed causing widespread destruction of homes and villages. This civil war is particularly calamitous, as the native-born citizens are often caught in the middle and experience the brunt of the violence. As a result of this political upheaval and humanitarian crises, over 1.8 million have been internally displaced, with many seeking refuge in other countries, including the United States, to avoid intercommunal violence. Although witness testimonies and satellite images validate the widespread devastation of this civil war, the catastrophic crisis continues to unfold. As Cameroonians flee their country and seek asylum in the U.S., their applications are denied. If they are fortunate to make it into the U.S. while seeking asylum, they are summarily deported back to their country to face persecution, torture, and other serious harm. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Immigration and Customs Enforcement choked, threatened, pepper-sprayed, and forced Cameroonian detainees to sign their deportation papers. In an interview with the Guardian newspaper, Lauren Seibert, refugee and migrant rights researcher at Human Rights Watch shared that under the Trump administration, ICE deported more than 90 Cameroonians on two deportation flights, failing to provide Cameroonians with due process. Experts say that this unsettling and outrageous management of immigration policies resulted in a fragmented and broken system. Seibert also indicated that the “U.S. government utterly failed Cameroonians with credible asylum claims by sending them back to harm in the country they fled, as well as mistreating already traumatized people before and during deportation.” The dysfunction of the immigration system is illustrated by the plummet in the number of Cameroonians seeking asylum and the number of overall asylum applications from fiscal year 2020 to 2021, a decrease by nearly 80% and 60%respectively. As a result, it is predicted that the decrease in asylum requests to the United States is likely to continue. The inept immigration and asylum process did not only occur under the Trump administration. It was drastically flawed when President Bill Clinton signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. This bill limited “cancellation of removal” to immigrants who had been in the United States for at least 10 years. The Clinton administration also set the stage for the criminalization of immigrants by imposing the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.
(03/08/22 11:00am)
On Feb. 24, 2022, Russia launched a large-scale military assault against Ukraine, according to an article by the Council on Foreign Relations. AP News reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plan with this attack is to “dismantle the [Ukrainian] government and replace it with his own regime.”
(12/07/21 11:00am)
This fall, through the Legal Studies Practicum (LGLS-145A) with Prof. and Chair of the Legal Studies Department Rosalind Kabrhel, my classmates and I were able to get involved with a diverse array of hands-on experiential learning opportunities. Through this practicum, we were able to experience the importance of educational interventions in the communities we worked with, as a way to marginally counteract systemic disadvantages. The hands-on approach to experiential learning allowed us to synthesize and apply the themes of this course’s readings through a critical and concrete lens.
(11/16/21 11:00am)
Thirty years after her landmark testimony against Supreme Court justice nominee Clarence Thomas at his senate confirmation hearing, Prof. Anita Hill (Heller) released her book “Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence.” On Wednesday, Nov. 10, the Heller School for Social Policy and Management hosted a virtual event with Hill to discuss “Believing” and Hill’s experience grappling with the repercussions of speaking out about sexual harassment. The event was hosted by Prof. ChaeRan Freeze (NEJS).
(03/02/21 11:00am)
Flashback: It’s 7:50 in the morning. You just arrived in your classroom, still groggy and trying to remember if you finished your math homework from yesterday. Yet, before you can check your backpack or even take another moment to think, you are called to stand up and recite the daily vow.
(09/08/20 10:00am)
With the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement and continued protests pushing for combating racial injustice, many people have discovered and donated to bail funds through social media this summer. In a June 5 interview, the Justice spoke with Brandy Henry, a graduate of the Heller School of Social Policy, research fellow at Columbia University’s School of Social Work and internship coordinator at the Massachusetts Bail Fund, to learn more about the problems with the United States' bail system and the role of bail funds in addressing those issues. In the interview, Henry did not speak on behalf of the Massachusetts Bail Fund.
(07/08/20 5:39pm)
Following the first Sankofa Community Conversation held in December 2017, the University’s Sankofa event series has continued to promote intimate and critical conversations surrounding social justice, race and ethnicity. On June 2 and 3, the Heller School for Social Policy and Management's Office of Equity, Inclusion and Diversity hosted a virtual Sankofa Community Conference titled “Co-Constructing Racial Justice through Life and Work.”
(01/28/20 11:00am)
Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center scholar Pam Swing and undergraduate Elizabeth Dabanka ’20 discussed their play “I Want to Go to Jail,” which is based on the 1919 picketing of the Massachusetts State House by women’s suffrage advocates during the WSRC-sponsored event “Writing a Suffragist Play in 2019,” on Thusday.
(01/28/20 11:00am)
Writer, Boston College professor and art collector Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi spoke about how modern art from the Middle East interacts with politics during a talk on Wednesday hosted by the Crown Center for Middle East Studies.
