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Panelists spoke about the online release of material from the book edited by Mark Green and Michele Jolin, Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President, to be published…

Ms. Winston talked about oral arguments in two cases later tin the day on whether the University of Michigan’s undergraduate college and law school should be allowed to use race as a factor …

The participants debated the constitutionality of the affirmative action programs at University of Michigan. Two lawsuits challenging the use of affirmative action as criteria for admission …

Appointees from the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations spoke about women in government. Among the topics they addressed were how to get an appointment, the confirmation process, and th…

Griffin Dunne and Margery Russel praised the Anti-Defamation League for helping children learn tolerance and value diversity. They said that violent children were often children who hate the…

Dean Alice Bullock of the Howard University Law School, moderated this discussion among legal experts on race relations. They examined the progress of the civil rights movement and the chal…

Panelists discussed issues relating to racism and gender in society, which was part of the National Political Congress of Black Women’s annual convention. Julianne Malveaux, Radio Talk Show …

Members of the panel discussed ways to improve racial diversity in primary and secondary schools. School superintendents, educators and former Education Secretary William Bennett talked abou…

In their second meeting the PRESIDENT’S INITIATIVE ON RACE heard testimony from three experts on racial attitudes. James Jones spoke about the embedded nature of race in U.S. society. …

President William Jefferson Clinton and Vice President Albert Gore Jr. addressed the President’s Advisory Board on Race. The board was holding its meeting on the relationship between demogra…

Democratic National Committee members attended an annual conference. Several members of the administration, including HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, Education Secretary Richard Riley, Transport…

President Bill Clinton’s Advisory Board on Race held its first meeting in its yearlong effort to develop a report on race relations in the United States. The members of the board talked abou…

African-American participants and experts on the U.S. legal system reflected upon their experiences in law education and practice. They also spoke on the utility of the law for the African-A…

In this edition of America and the Courts, participants discussed their progression through the legal profession and how their mother or daughter affected this. The mothers and daughters als…

Attorneys and former administration officials spoke at an event celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the Lawyers' Committee on Civil Rights Under Law.

Andrew Young, mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, and former ambassador to the United Nations during the Carter administration, addressed the graduating class of the Washington College of Law at Amer…

Professor Judith Winston, Ass’t. Professor of Law, THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY discussed her reactions to the verdict of the trial of four Los Angeles police officers in the Rodney King Case.

Panelists discussed issues relating to the war in the Persian Gulf from both pro-war and pro-peace perspectives, including the historical context of the conflict, new American interventionis…