A complimentary screening of a documentary about incarcerated battered women and their successful clemency legislation, "Sin by Silence" will be followed by a panel and community discussion on the policy on this issue in Texas. Panelists include: Cathy Marston of Free Battered TX Women; Patricia Castillo of the PEACE Initiative; Doshie Piper of the University of the Incarnate Word’s Criminal Justice department; and Bill Bush of Texas A&M San Antonio.

Trinity University presents its 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture speaker, Kathleen Cleaver, a human rights advocate and senior lecturer and researcher fellow at Emory University School of Law. Kathleen Neal Cleaver has spent more of her life participating in the human rights struggle. Since 2000 Cleaver has served as the co-director of the Human Rights Research Fund, part of a network of anti-racist organizations that document violations of the human rights of U.S. citizens who challenge the racist…