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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…

Washington, D.C., community members participated in a forum about politics and race relations. Political science and sociology professors as well as representatives from advocacy organizatio…

Education scholars talked about demographic changes in K-12 public schools since the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling. They spoke about how to improve the quality of edu…

Richard Kahlenberg talked about $150 million in Department of Education grants awarded to states to expand charter schools. He also discussed how these schools operate and their effectivenes…

Panelists talked about affirmative action, the future of college diversity, and policy implications. The panel focused primarily on using class instead of race to achieve diversity in higher…

Richard Kahlenberg talked about his book Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy, published by Columbia University Press. The book is about th…

Panelists talked about the U.S. Supreme Court’s December 4, 2006 hearing on the constitutionality of racial school integration plans in Louisville, Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington. They al…

Mr. Hentoff and Professor Edley debated the practice of affirmative action. After opening remarks they answered questions by a panel and the audience. Among the issues they addressed were cl…

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…

The participants debated the question, “Resolved: That affirmative action on the basis of race, gender and ethnicity should be abolished.” They discussed affirmative action in relation to e…

Journalists, researchers and public policy specialists talked about affirmative action as an election year issue and about the media’s treatment of the issue.