Kathleen Neal Cleaver has spent most of her life advocating for human rights. Since 2000, she has served as the co-director of the Atlanta-based Human Rights Research Fund, part of a network of anti-racist organizations engaged in documenting violations of the human rights of US citizens who challenge the racist and military policies within the United States. Cleaver is currently a senior lecturer in the African American Studies Department at Yale and holds an appointment as a senior lecturer and research fellow at Emory University School of Law.Cleaver has been devoted to challenging racial injustice since she joined the faculty of E...
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Kathleen Neal Cleaver has spent most of her life advocating for human rights. Since 2000, she has served as the co-director of the Atlanta-based Human Rights Research Fund, part of a network of anti-racist organizations engaged in documenting violations of the human rights of US citizens who challenge the racist and military policies within the United States.
Cleaver is currently a senior lecturer in the African American Studies Department at Yale and holds an appointment as a senior lecturer and research fellow at Emory University School of Law.
Cleaver has been devoted to challenging racial injustice since she joined the faculty of Emory University Law School in 1992. She has worked to free imprisoned freedom fighters such as Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt and Mumia Abu-Jamal. In 1993, she served on the Georgia Supreme Court Commission on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts and became a board member of the Southern Center for Human Rights. She has taught as a visiting faculty member at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, the Graduate School of Yale University, the University of Texas Law School, and Sarah Lawrence College, where she was the Joanne Woodward Professor of Public Policy in 1999. She has taught courses on pre-trial litigation, professional ethics, tort, legal history, and the US law of citizenship and race.
Cleaver’s writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including Ramparts, Black Panther publications, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe, and Transition and she has contributed scholarly essays to the books Critical Race Feminism, Critical White Studies, The Promise of Multiculturalism, and The Black Panther Party Reconsidered. Along with George Katsiaficas, humanities professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology, she co-edited the essay collection Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party. She edited a collection of writings by her former husband Eldridge Cleaver titled Target Zero: A Life in Writing. Her latest work is 2013’s Memories of Love and War.
Kathleen Cleaver continues to engage the public in forums, teaching, writing, and film projects that incorporate human rights concerns both within the United States and across the African Diaspora.
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