The KFC Yum! Center

Changing the Game ◽

10.5810/kentucky/9780813179551.003.0014 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 201-218

Author(s):

Jim Host ◽

Eric A. Moyen

Keyword(s):

Civil Rights ◽

Task Force ◽

Construction Project ◽

Bond Issue ◽

Athletic Director ◽

University Of Louisville

Host resigned his cabinet position in 2005 but agreed to continue as chair of the Louisville Arena Task Force (LATF). Its members agreed that Louisville needed a new arena but disagreed on the location. “Papa” John Schnatter, University of Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich, and Mayor Jerry Abramson all held strong opinions about the best site. The LATF eventually selected a riverfront location, with Schnatter casting the lone dissenting vote. Host then became chair of the Louisville Arena Authority (LAA), working with Louisville civil rights leaders to ensure that minorities were hired on the construction project and overseeing an extremely complex bond issue. Host and the LAA guided the construction project through to completion, and the KFC Yum! Center opened in 2010. Financing of the arena faced some initial criticism, but fears of default have proved to be unfounded. The KFC Yum! Center provides Kentucky with one of the best venues for sports and entertainment in the country.

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Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer

10.7591/cornell/9781501749650.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Rodney A. Smolla

Keyword(s):

Civil Rights ◽

Free Speech ◽

Hate Speech ◽

Task Force ◽

Supreme Court Decision ◽

Law Schools ◽

History Of ◽

Gang Rape ◽

The Right ◽

The City

This personal and frank book offers an insider's view on the violent confrontations in Charlottesville during the “summer of hate.” Blending memoir, courtroom drama, and a consideration of the unhealed wound of racism in our society, the book shines a light on the conflict between the value of free speech and the protection of civil rights. The author has spent his career in the thick of these tempestuous and fraught issues, from acting as lead counsel in a famous Supreme Court decision challenging Virginia's law against burning crosses, to serving as co-counsel in a libel suit brought by a fraternity against Rolling Stone magazine for publishing an article alleging that one of the fraternity's initiation rituals included gang rape. The author has also been active as a university leader, serving as dean of three law schools and president of one and railing against hate speech and sexual assault on US campuses. Well before the tiki torches cast their ominous shadows across the nation, the city of Charlottesville sought to relocate the Unite the Right rally; the author was approached to represent the alt-right groups. Though the author declined, he came to wonder what his history of advocacy had wrought. Feeling unsettlingly complicit, the author joined the Charlottesville Task Force, and realized that the events that transpired there had meaning and resonance far beyond a singular time and place. Why, he wonders, has one of our foundational rights created a land in which such tragic clashes happen all too frequently?

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Campus Sexual Assault Policies: A Feminist Policy Analysis Framework

Affilia ◽

10.1177/0886109919878273 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 35 (3) ◽

pp. 397-412

Author(s):

Molly C. Driessen

Keyword(s):

Sexual Assault ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Policy Analysis ◽

Task Force ◽

The United States ◽

Mandatory Reporting ◽

Future Research ◽

Analysis Framework ◽

Campus Sexual Assault

The purpose of this study is to conduct a feminist-based policy analysis to examine the role of power in campus sexual assault policies. This research investigated the role of power in campus policies that are in response to addressing sexual assault using a feminist policy analysis framework. McPhail’s (2003) Feminist-Based Policy Analysis Framework was used to study the policy-setting documents authored by the United States (U.S.) Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights and White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault that was established in 2014. Together, these documents encompass the federal guidelines for college campuses’ compliance, rights, and responsibility under Title IX. The Framework provides four questions to consider when analyzing the role of power within a policy. Several strengths of the policies are identified as well as tension between the power of institutions versus the power of student survivors, specifically in mandatory reporting policies. Implications for social work research, practice, and policy are explored along with identifying the study’s limitations and future research suggestions.

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Testimony before the Subcommittees on Africa and International Economic Policy and Trade

Issue A Journal of Opinion ◽

10.1017/s0047160700504429 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 9 (1-2) ◽

pp. 17-20

Author(s):

Randall Robinson

Keyword(s):

International Economic ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Executive Director ◽

Task Force ◽

Black Americans ◽

United States Foreign Policy ◽

Black Leadership ◽

Congressional Black Caucus ◽

Black Caucus ◽

The Caribbean

My name is Randall Robinson. I am the Executive Director of TransAfrica.On September 25, 1976, the Congressional Black Caucus convened The Black Leadership Conference on Africa. The conference, comprising the leadership of virtually every national black civil rights and social organization, accomplished two noteworthy objectives. It authored the African-American Manifesto on Southern Africa which expressed grave concerns with the previous Administration’s negotiation initiatives for a Zimbabwe settlement. Secondly, it mandated a task force, chaired by me, to propose and execute an institutional vehicle through which black Americans could express to the Congress and the Administration their views on United States foreign policy vis-a-vis Africa and the Caribbean.

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Chronicling Our Legacy of Leadership

National Review of Black Politics ◽

10.1525/nrbp.2020.1.1.80 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 80-131

Author(s):

Sherri L. Wallace ◽

Robert C. Smith ◽

Adolphus G. Belk ◽

Gloria Braxton ◽

Charisse Burden-Stelly ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Civil Rights ◽

Black Community ◽

Task Force ◽

Community Organizations ◽

Fiftieth Anniversary ◽

Future Research ◽

National Conference ◽

Educational Backgrounds ◽

History Of ◽

Appointed Officials

This paper is a culmination of research by the task force established to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS). It presents a capsule history of the founding of NCOBPS and then profiles of the founders of the organization. The profiles focus on the founders’ educational backgrounds, careers, and contributions to NCOBPS leadership, to the profession in terms of scholarship and service, and to the Black community and the nation with respect to their work in civil rights and community organizations, the bureaucracy, and as elected and appointed officials. The purpose is to provide not only a distilled and concise record, but also a framework from which to develop future research.

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White People Ain’t Left Us Nothin’ But the Underworld: Historicity, Race and the American Dream in Ridley Scott’s American Gangster

Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings ◽

10.24908/iqurcp.9063 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Laura Sampson

Keyword(s):

Civil Rights ◽

Lived Experience ◽

Vietnam War ◽

Civil Rights Movement ◽

Task Force ◽

White People ◽

Economic Context ◽

Political Implications ◽

Drug Lord ◽

The 1960S

Released in 2007, Ridley Scott’s American Gangster tracks the career of Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), who dominated the Harlem drug trade in the 1960s and 70s through his monopoly over heroin, which he imported directly from Vietnam and Thailand. The film follows the character of Detective Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe), who led the police task force ultimately responsible for toppling Lucas’ regime. This paper investigates the historical validity of the film, taking into consideration the consultant role Roberts and Lucas adopted during production alongside the political implications of Scott’s decision to cinematize (and so implicitly condone) the life of a convicted drug lord and accused murderer. It examines both filmic elements of music, casting and cinematography as well sociological concerns of race, space, masculinity and class in order to determine whether the film realistically portrays the lived experience of gang members and Harlem residents alike. Moreover, it considers the film’s political backdrop and its engagement with events like the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement and the 1970s recession. Ultimately, the paper concludes that despite Scott’s efforts to undermine traditional iconography by portraying Lucas as a complex, rational and respected outlaw-businessman, the narrative’s lack of critical engagement with the socio-economic context of its era ultimately render it presentist in style, content and intention.

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An Updated Review of Institutions of Higher Education’s Responses to Sexual Assault: Results From a Nationally Representative Sample

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/0886260516658757 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 34 (10) ◽

pp. 1983-2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Tara N. Richards

Keyword(s):

Sexual Assault ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Representative Sample ◽

Task Force ◽

White House ◽

Campus Sexual Assault ◽

Office For Civil Rights ◽

Policies And Procedures ◽

Previous Decade ◽

Nationally Representative

It has been more than a decade since Karjane, Fisher, and Cullen reviewed a nationally representative sample of Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) and documented “sexual assault on college campuses” and “what colleges are doing about it.” The current research aimed to examine the current state of IHE’s response to campus sexual assault as well as any changes in IHE’s response over the previous decade. To this end, the present study provides a comparison of data reported in Karjane et al. and 2015 data from a statistically equivalent sample ( n = 820). IHE’s utilization of policies and procedures that reflect recent guidance by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and best practices indicated by the 2014 White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault are also presented and discussed.

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Seeking stability in Chicago: School actions, (c)overt forms of racial injustice, and the slow violence of neoliberal rationality

Education Policy Analysis Archives ◽

10.14507/epaa.25.2634 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 25 ◽

pp. 58 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ann M. Aviles ◽

Jessica A. Heybach

Keyword(s):

Public Schools ◽

Critical Race Theory ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Education Policy ◽

White Supremacy ◽

Task Force ◽

Chicago School ◽

Chicago Public Schools ◽

Court Records ◽

Slow Violence

During the 2012-13 school year, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) reported 18,669 students were enrolled in the Students in Temporary Living Situations (STLS) program. In this paper, we seek to discuss school closings in relationship to their impact on poor, unstably housed, black students in Chicago. Critical race theory (CRT) constructs of (1) whiteness as property (Harris, 1995), (2) racial realism (Bell, 1992; Buras, 2013), and (3) white supremacy as education policy (Donnor, 2013; Gillborn, 2005) will be the frames in which we situate and analyze the school actions that have resulted in the recent closure/consolidation of 49 Chicago Public Schools (CPS). We contend that these constructs related to race, when mixed with neoliberal rationality (Brown, 2015) conspire to foster disastrous school policy that unduly impacts vulnerable populations and de-democratizes Chicago in profound ways. For this project, the CPS STLS program manager overseeing STLS transitions during the 2012-13/2013-14 school actions, and civil rights lawyers-advocates who have spent over two decades working to enforce McKinney-Vento implementation in CPS were interviewed. Document analysis of court records regarding three cases through which the Chicago Public Schools were named as Defendants in litigation brought forth by families (parents and students) impacted by CPS’ school actions; Chicago Teacher’s Union data and IL General Assembly’s Chicago Educational Facilities Task Force were completed. Findings reveal in order to promote equitable, and effective education policy for students of color experiencing housing instability means working against white supremacy and slow violence found throughout the US and world.

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ASAS INTEGRASI DALAM UNDANG-UNDANG KEPAILITAN VERSUS CITA-CITA KODIFIKASI DAN UNIFIKASI HUKUM ACARA PERDATA

ADHAPER: Jurnal Hukum Acara Perdata ◽

10.36913/jhaper.v4i1.70 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 159

Author(s):

Dewa Nyoman Rai Asmara Putra

Keyword(s):

Law Enforcement ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Task Force ◽

Civil Law ◽

Legal Reform ◽

Civil Procedure ◽

Legal Certainty ◽

Conceptual Approach ◽

National Legal System ◽

Is Integration

Civil procedure has important role in enforcing civil rights. Therefore codiﬁcation and uniﬁcation of civil procedure may guarantee the legal certainty which necessary and urgent in law enforcement. Philosophically, codiﬁcation and uniﬁcation is an idea in the development of national legal system. The regulation of civil procedure until nowadays is distributed into many parts of law and regulation, which mostly inherited from the Dutch Colonial Administration or substantive statutory laws enacted by the Indonesian legislative body and government. Since 1967, the bill of civil procedure had been ratiﬁ ed in 13th plenary session of National Legal Reform Task Force (BPLPHN), which expected to be the new Indonesian civil procedure. However, until today, the bill is not ratiﬁ ed yet to be a law by the parliament. There is an idea of codiﬁcation and uniﬁcation of civil procedure, on the other side there is integration principle, which adopted in Law of Bankruptcy and Suspension of Payment. The integration principle means that all civil procedural laws should be into one system of civil law. The main issue is that whether integration principle align with the idea of codiﬁcation and uniﬁcation. This article will answer the issue as a result of doctrinal research with statutory approach and conceptual approach.

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