Exploring justice

GLC Director of Education Tom Thurston (in lower right corner) with Jim Clifford, a history teacher at Amity High School in Woodbridge, and Jake Baller, a social science and civics teacher at Amistad High School in New Haven, with students from Amity and Amistad high schools.

June 20, 2018

The Gilder Lehrman Center (GLC) for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center is hosting its fourth “Exploring Justice” program for high school students from New Haven and Woodbridge this week (June 19-22). There are more than 35 students who are participating in it. A few of the activities they are doing include watching a screening of the film Questions of Justice: Officers of Color in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter by Yale students Aaron Peirano Garrison and Clark Burnett, followed by a panel discussion led by Sgt. Shayna Kendell, NHPD, and attending a mock trial on the issue of “Immigration and Justice,” held at the New Haven Superior Court that will focus on a hypothetical DACA deportation hearing.