Linda Cohen Trailblazer Series: Dr. Richard Lapchick

Join us as we welcome noted scholar, author, sports authority, and human rights activist Richard Lapchick to the first 2024 Linda Cohen Trailblazer Series Lunch and Learn event.
 

Considered among the nation's experts on sport and social issues, Lapchick has appeared numerous times on Good Morning America, Face The Nation, The Today Show, ABC World News, NBC Nightly News, the CBS Evening News, CNN and ESPN as well as numerous other news broadcasts. Lapchick has received nine honorary degrees. He was named the Florida Public Citizen of the Year in 2006. He has been the recipient of numerous humanitarian awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award for Work in Civil Rights from the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow/Push Coalition in 2009.

 

Richard Lapchick is the son of Joe Lapchick, the famous Original Celtic center who became a legendary coach for St. John's and the Knicks.

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