A campus and community Deliberative Dialogue will focus on the issue guide Elections: How Should We Encourage and Safeguard Voting? Registration is required.
Tag: voting rights
CCE plans Constitution Day events on campus
Plans for this year’s Constitution Day and Week celebrations focus on the 50th anniversary of the 26th Amendment, the amendment that lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
Attend a free documentary screening at the Normal Theater, September 24
Join the Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning and the American Democracy Project on Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. at the Normal Theater for a free screening of Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook.
MLK Dinner to feature activist, lawyer Lani Guinier
Lawyer, scholar and civil rights activist, Lani Guinier will be the featured speaker for Illinois State University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Dinner. The first African-American woman tenured professor at Harvard Law School, Guinier has worked diligently on issues of social justice, voting rights and women in the law. The dinner will be 6 p.m. Friday,