The Clinton School of Public Service is hosting four public events in Little Rock this week.
On Monday, Peggy Scranton will speak about the friendship between Hillary Clinton and longtime educator and public servant Diane Blair at 6 p.m. at the school's Great Hall, 1200 President Clinton Ave.
Scranton is a political science professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Scranton's research into the Blair papers at the University of Arkansas Library's Special Collections section "brings to light ways these women supported each others' public success in Arkansas and how the friendship helped Hillary thrive in Washington during her terms as First Lady," a news release said.
On Wednesday, Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford will interview U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., about President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office. The event is set for noon at Sturgis Hall on the campus, but officials have said the location could be changed if attendance surges.
Also on Wednesday, the Clinton School is co-hosting a conversation on "Civil Rights and the Arts in 2017 America" at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center at 501 W. Ninth St.
Terence Blanchard and Charles Blow will lead the discussion, which will focus on the Black Lives Matter movement and "the uniqueness of music and the arts as a catalyst for unity," a news release said.
The event starts at 7 p.m.
On Thursday, the Rev. John Dear will give a talk called "Peace, Politics and Protest" at noon at the Clinton School's Sturgis Hall.
Dear has formerly served as director of the largest interfaith peace organization in the country, called Fellowship of Reconciliation.
"John has traveled the war zones of the world, been arrested some 80 times for peace, led Nobel Peace Prize winners to Iraq, recently visited Afghanistan, [has] given thousands of lectures on peace across the U.S. and served as a pastor of several churches in New Mexico," a news release said.
Dear helped draft Pope Francis' Jan. 1 World Day of Peace message and previously arranged for Mother Teresa to speak to various governments about pending executions, the release said.
Dear is a priest of the Diocese of Monterey in California and works for Campaign Nonviolence.
Metro on 04/16/2017