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The Boston Review and the Future of Black Politics: Irrelevance? Obsolete? Multiracial? Dead?
We are respectable negroes
Indeed things could get worse. After all, black mayors and other mayors of color—in Oakland, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and elsewhere—have behaved no differently, and often worse, than their white counterparts in responding to Occupy protests. Lani...
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Harvard Law School professor Lani Guinier delivers MLK Week keynote speech in Plachta Auditorium
CM LifeMichigan University students and Mount Pleasant residents came together Wednesday night to see keynote speaker Lani Guinier in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium. The event, hosted by the Multicultural Academic Student Services, featured Guinier...
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Roger’s outburst, where he found the ‘strength from within’ to talk truth to power, changed not only the tone of the meeting, but the advice that the White house Counsel was then going to give LBJ
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It's why Ronald Reagan kicked off his 1980 campaign talking about "states rights" in Mississippi, not half-a-mile from the spot where murdered civil rights workers were buried in a dam. It was welfare mothers driving Cadillacs and young bucks buying...
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The point of this story is not just to honor King and his courage and leadership, but it’s also to acknowledge this theme, of the importance of linking one’s fate to others’, in common cause
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About Lani Guinier
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Lani Guinier (IPA: /ˈlɑni gwɪˈnɪər/, born April 19, 1950) is an American civil rights scholar. The first black woman tenured professor at Harvard Law School, Guinier's work includes professional responsibilities of public lawyers, the relationship between democracy and the law, the role of race and gender in the political process, equity in... Full Article
