Courting Justice - Cleveland, OH
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Idea Center at Playhouse Square
1375 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44115Description
Co-hosted by the National Center for State Courts, WVIZ/PBS ideastream and the City Club of Cleveland, broadcaster Tavis Smiley convenes an unprecedented listening tour, Courting Justice, featuring state supreme and appellate court judges. Courting Justice offers stakeholders from disenfranchised communities (including people of color, immigrants and the poor) an opportunity to discuss the issues that continue to erode the public trust in our justice system and help craft concrete reforms.Tavis Smiley will facilitate an hour-long dialogue during which the audience is encouraged to speak frankly about how they would reform our court system. The conversation will broadcast on Tavis Smiley on PBS and The Tavis Smiley Show from Public Radio International (PRI). Free and Invitation Only. Parking available at Playhouse Square Parking Garage located at 1450 Chester Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115. Doors open at 10am. Event starts promptly at 11am.
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ABOUT TAVIS SMILEY:
Tavis Smiley is currently host of the late night television showon PBS,now in its 13th season, as well as "The Tavis Smiley Show" on Public Radio International. He is the author or co-author of 20 books,and hisnon-profit Tavis Smiley Foundationisin the midst of a $3 million four-year campaign called "Ending Poverty: America's Silence Spaces" to help focus on alleviating endemic poverty in America. TIMEmagazine named Smiley to its list of "The World 100 Most Influential People".
ABOUT THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS
The National Center for State Courts, headquartered in Williamsburg, Va., is a nonprofit court organization dedicated to improving the administration of justice by providing leadership and service to the state courts. Founded in 1971 by the Conference of Chief Justices and Chief Justice of the United States, Warren E. Burger, NCSC provides education, training, management and research services to the nation’s state courts.