Join the Miami University community Feb. 25 and 26 for two events exploring the connections that Miami, Oxford and the Western College for Women have to the civil rights movement and lessons learned to inspire progress today.⁣ ⁣ At 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, in the Armstrong Student Center Pavilion on the Oxford campus, journalist and author Wil Haygood (MiamiAlum ’76) will debut the trailer for a forthcoming documentary based on his 2015 biography of Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Haygood, the Boadway Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence in Miami’s department of media, journalism & film, will speak on “The American Presidency and Thurgood Marshall,” followed by a question-and-answer session.⁣ ⁣ Haygood authored the book that eventually became the hit movie “The Butler,” and has written biographies of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. and boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. His latest book, Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, A Nation Torn Apart and a...