Noted law professor, author and activist Sheryll D. Cashin, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Civil Rights and Social Justice at the Georgetown University Law Center, delivered a provocative and insightful address to more than 200 attendees. She discussed the modern-day racial caste system in a lecture titled “The Descendants: From Slavery to Jim Crow to Dark Ghettos, A Call for 21st Century Emancipation.”  

During the program, Professor Cashin received the John P. McGovern medallion from the McGovern Endowment to commemorate this event. This medallion represents many of Dr. McGovern’s values, such as truth, loyalty, love, and peace. Professor Cashin’s work to inspire social change aligns with the John P. McGovern lecture’s mission, which she has demonstrated through decades of rigorous scholarship and civil-rights activism. Professor Cashin is a remarkable advocate and intellectual clarion for citizens belonging to disenfranchised and underserved communities.