UNC Prof. Barbara Fedders will speak to us about School Resource Officers (SROs) in our schools and whether they benefit all students.  She will also highlight the work of the Youth Justice Clinic which UNC sponsors.  SROs were originally brought into schools to help prevent mass shootings in schools.  Now they are under scrutiny in […]

Each fall, EHST has a meeting of members, friends, and visitors to discuss what has transpired (good, bad, and ugly) for the society this year, and what looms ahead next  year for us.  the coronavirus has been challenging, and we need to discuss the future of our in person meetings for 2021.  Additionally our programs, […]

Plastic is everywhere, and plastic lasts forever.   Do we have a problem here?  EHST member, Chris Kaman, will talk about the history of plastic, who really benefits from plastic, and why we are both dependent on plastic, and threatened by its use.  One documentary on Netflix titled "A Plastic Ocean" illustrates one of the […]

EHST will join with the Riverdale Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture (RYSEC) to hear their program on defunding the police.  Here's the writeup from RYSEC: "You’ve likely heard the calls for defunding the police, during this summer’s demonstrations against police killings.  You may agree and wonder how we could get there, or you may think […]

Many versions of the Stone Soup tale are set in a time of hardship and want.  Soldiers coming back from war begging for food.  Villagers wary of sharing their scare goods. As we look for ways to celebrate Thanksgiving and giving thanks we are aware of the hardships and want that the current pandemic has […]