Free speech is under increasing attack in the United States today. Which challenges should concern us most? What do they have to do with our perilous moment for the future of democracy and the backlash against racial reckoning and gender identity? Can the tensions between freedom of expression and equality be reconciled? What can we learn from the history of social movements about how to protect both?

Gara LaMarche is a Leader in Residence at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at City College in New York, where he also teaches and co-chairs Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice, of which he is a founder. He is also Senior Adviser to The Raben Group and Board Chair of The New Press, the progressive non-profit publishing house. His 45-year career in human rights, social justice, and philanthropy included stints as President of the Democracy Alliance and The Atlantic Philanthropies, founder and Director of US Programs for the Open Society Foundations, and senior positions at the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch.

Feingold taught political science to a generation of CCNY students. To his students, he was far more than an exceptional teacher: he was a mentor, a guide for their lives, and an inspiration to live lives with integrity, and intellectual honesty, and for many, to devote their lives to public service. He made his students intellectually hungry, challenged their assumptions, and taught them analytic rigor and careful reasoning. He retained an intellectual/teaching relationship with his students from the 1950s and 1960s for over fifty years, until his death in 2017 at the age of 91.

This Lecture Series has been supported by many of his students, in loving memory of a teacher who personified the highest values of The City College of New York.

Time: 4:00 — 5:30 pm EST

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