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Letter Writing Event
Duke Justice Project Advocacy Week
March 24 @ 6pm
Bio Sci 130
Join the Duke Justice Project for letter writing and food!
- Learn about recent NC criminal justice legislation
- Write advocacy letters to NC politicians
- Enjoy Chipotle catering!
RSVP here for Chipotle ->
Spring Lecture with Dr. Barbara Andrea Sostaita
Duke Divinity School, Hispanic House of Studies
April 7 @ 12:30pm
0012 Westbrook Building
The Hispanic House of Studies invites you to their annual Spring Lecture with Dr. Barbara Andrea Sostaita, author of Sanctuary Everywhere: The Fugitive Sacred in the Sonoran Desert. Boxed lunches will be available for the first 40 attendees. Livestream available here.
Application due April 13!
North Carolina Civic Fellowship Program
You Can Vote
Application due April 13!
Join the North Carolina Civic Fellowship Program! As a Civic Fellow, you will work with teams of students across the state on nonpartisan projects to educate and mobilize students to make their voice heard and their vote count in the 2026 elections. This opportunity will require a commitment of up to 10 hours per week for the semester.
REQUIREMENTS
The NC Civic Fellowship program is open to students who attend colleges, universities, and community colleges in North Carolina. You must be located in North Carolina during the fellowship dates and be willing to attend in-person events. Availability on weekends to attend events is required.
PROGRAM DATES & PAY
This program will have an option of two start dates – either June 1st or August 10th, depending on the individual's summer schedule. The program's end-date is November 20th, 2026. Fellows will be paid $18 an hour for an average of 10 hours per week, paid every other week.
Apply to Civic Fellowship Program here ->
2026 Charles E. Scheidt Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
The Scheidt Summer Undergraduate Fellowship is open to undergrads from any academic discipline (and any institution in the world) to conduct original research drawing on the unique resources in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at USC, including the Holocaust and Genocide Studies book collection, the Library's Special Collections, and the Visual History Archive.
Further details and the full call for applications can be found here.
The application deadline is March 31, 2026.
Questions can be directed to cagr@usc.edu.
Sam Block's Spirit: from Mississippi to Minneapolis
Op-Ed from DHRC Advisory Board member Prof. Wesley Hogan
“I’m not really a movement guy,” reflected longtime New York Times columnist David Brooks early in the second Trump administration. But a social movement, he said, “is what America needs right now.”
To understand why America’s heart requires movements, it helps to remember activists who help make it beat—like Sam Block. As a young Air Force veteran in the early 1960s, Block and other freedom riders worked tirelessly to register Black voters in his home state of Mississippi. Police responded with a campaign of physical terror. In official cruisers, they followed people home from voter registration workshops, pulled them over for made-up offenses, and beat those who insisted they had done nothing wrong. In late July 1962, police arrested a fourteen-year-old boy, forced him to strip, and beat him with a bull whip as he lay naked on the Greenwood jail’s concrete floor. “When someone came near, a buzzer was sounded, and a television set was turned on to drown out the boy’s screams,” historian Howard Zinn wrote.
This stunning cruelty ignited in Block a passion for justice strong enough to overcome his instinct to flee. Keep reading ->
Hiring: Interpreters (all languages)
World Relief Durham
World Relief Durham is seeking interpreters for all languages (immediate need for Burmese, Kinyarwanda, and French). No experience needed. Pay is $20/hour (contractor). Submit interest form or call 919-943-1546.
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