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Author and Georgetown University law professor Sheryll Cashin joined Book TV to talk and take calls about race relations and inequality in America. Her many books include The Failures of Int…

Georgetown University Law Professor Sheryll Cashin argued that U.S. housing policies have created an uneven “residential caste system” resulting in what she calls poverty-free havens and pov…

The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance held a virtual hearing to examine the impact exclusionary zoning policies have on affordable housing…

Edward Ball looked at white supremacy through the lens of his great-great grandfather, a member of the Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana during the years after the Civil War. He was interviewed by S…

Authors Imani Perry, Sheryll Cashin, and Jabari Asim discussed race and identity.

The Federal Judicial Conference of the Fourth Circuit was held in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. In this panel, law professors discussed the legacy of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood M…

Community leaders, historians, and policymakers participated in a discussion on the 50th anniversary of Federal Housing Act and its aim to prevent discrimination in the housing industry. The…

Authors Todd Miller, Sheryll Cashin, and Sasha Polakow-Suransky talked about their respective books dealing with topics that include immigration and race relations: Storming the Wall: Climat…

Panelists talked about the Supreme Court. Panelists included Sheryll Cashin, author of Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy, and Norman Ornstein, co-auth…

Former law clerks to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall spoke about his legacy. He served from 1967 to 1991. Panelists, including Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, remembered their tim…

Professor Sheryll Cashin talked the Obama administration’s impact on race relations in the U.S.

Sheryll Cashin talked about her book, Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America, in which she argues that affirmative action policies in education do little to help the disadva…

Sheryll Cashin, author of Place Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity and Sophia Nelson, author of Black Woman Redefined, talked about race relations in 2014 as African-American History Mont…

Sheryll Cashin talked about her book, The Agitator’s Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family. The interview, part of Book TV’s college series, was…

A panel discussion was held to commemorate the July 2, 2008, centennial of the birth of Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American appointed to the United States Supreme Court. Ju…

Sheryll Cashin talked about her book, The Agitator’s Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family (PublicAffairs; July 7, 2008), which recounts the leg…

As a part of the legislative conference’s Author Pavilion, Sheryll Cashin spoke about her book, The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream, published …

Journalists, the British Ambassador to the U.S., and former Supreme Court law clerks talked about current news events and political issues. Topics included the Clinton and Dole campaigns, th…