{"id":5939,"date":"2016-10-07T20:42:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T01:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2016-10-15T00:29:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T05:29:24","slug":"race-and-the-constitution-with-with-marjorie-esman-aclu-of-louisiana-19-october-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2016\/10\/07\/race-and-the-constitution-with-with-marjorie-esman-aclu-of-louisiana-19-october-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Race and the Constitution&#8221; with Marjorie Esman (ACLU of Louisiana) &#8212; 19 October 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MarjorieEsman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5940\" src=\"http:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MarjorieEsman-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"marjorieesman\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MarjorieEsman-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MarjorieEsman.jpg 707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 85vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>Please join us on Wednesday (19 October 2016) at 7:00 PM for &#8220;Race and the Constitution&#8221; with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laaclu.org\/staff.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Marjorie Esman<\/a> (Executive Director, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laaclu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ACLU of Louisiana<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Marjorie Esman\u00a0says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Constitution has at times been interpreted in ways which propelled forward the cause of racial justice, but as originally drafted, was designed to deprive African Americans of fundamental rights. While civil rights have been expanded by Constitutional amendments and legislation, the legacy of denial persists. With issues of discrimination, profiling, and physical and structural violence still pervading American society, how does the Constitution still serve to deny full racial justice?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The talk is free and open to the public. \u00a0Please join us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"tel:+318-465-3427\">Call<\/a> or <a href=\"sms:\/\/+318-465-3437\">text<\/a> Susan Caldwell at 318.465.3427. \u00a0Or <a href=\"mailto:dre@allsoulsshreveport.org\" target=\"_blank\">email her<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us on Wednesday (19 October 2016) at 7:00 PM for &#8220;Race and the Constitution&#8221; with Marjorie Esman (Executive Director, ACLU of Louisiana). Marjorie Esman\u00a0says: The U.S. Constitution has at times been interpreted in ways which propelled forward the cause of racial justice, but as originally drafted, was designed to deprive African Americans of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2016\/10\/07\/race-and-the-constitution-with-with-marjorie-esman-aclu-of-louisiana-19-october-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Race and the Constitution&#8221; with Marjorie Esman (ACLU of Louisiana) &#8212; 19 October 2016&#8243;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-education","category-social-justice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5939"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5983,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions\/5983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}