{"id":451,"date":"2014-08-28T09:46:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T14:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlegalgrounds.law.memphis.edu\/wordpress\/?p=451"},"modified":"2014-08-28T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:49:13","slug":"ferguson-an-opportunity-for-community-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/ferguson-an-opportunity-for-community-discourse\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferguson:  An Opportunity for Community Discourse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Come join Ms. Jacqueline O&#8217;Bryant and Professors Harris, Mamlyuk, Kiel, and Allen on <strong>September 2nd at noon in Wade Auditorium<\/strong> as we explore the underlying causes of the recent unrest in Ferguson.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The discussion will be open, honest, and balanced, providing a much needed contrast to the superficial media coverage surrounding the tragedy. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">All are welcome, and we look forward to exploring touchy subjects in a measured and practical way. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This event is being presented by The National Lawyers Guild, BLSA, and The Federalist Society.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">For a better idea of\u00a0topics we intend to cover,\u00a0see the attached draft agenda.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/?attachment_id=452\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-452\">Ferguson Agenda<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\">Pizza will be provided.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Please feel free to contact Brian Burns, NLG President, \u00a0at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:BDBurns@memphis.edu\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: medium;\">BDBurns@memphis.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> for more information or with any suggestions\/comments.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Come join Ms. Jacqueline O&#8217;Bryant and Professors Harris, Mamlyuk, Kiel, and Allen on September 2nd at noon in Wade Auditorium&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,29,39,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blsa","category-federalist-soc","category-natl-lawyers-guild","category-stud-orgs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}