Roosevelt University was both challenged and impassioned by author and activist Rebecca Traister and Chicago-based columnist Maudlyne Ihejirika at the American Dream Reconsidered Conference, where they had a lively discussion about women in leadership roles during the advent of the #MeToo movement.
The Policing and Prison Reform panel brought out an impassioned audience voicing their concerns on the issues of mass incarceration, racial and economic segregation, policing in lower-income communities, and reformation of the prison system and law enforcement.
During times of great discord, and in particular the Civil Rights Movement, few things can galvanize a people quite as effectively as music. This was the thesis of the Civil Rights & Music discussion held on Sept. 11 in Ganz Hall as part of the American Dream Conference.