Discuss “Esther Bush on social injustice”

This past Thursday night, a small group of about 15 students filed through the doors of Mudge House and into the piano lounge. After getting settled, a speaker introduced herself personally to all of the students, asking their names and years, as well as where they were from. Esther Bush, president and CEO of the Urban League of Pittsburgh, spoke to the students gathered there about the importance of community activism on both local and global levels, particularly in regard to the unjustifiable differences among races.

Bush was brought to speak to the Carnegie Mellon University community as part of a traditionally second semester, student-run series of lectures called Local Currents. Local Currents tends to act as a smaller semester-long followup...