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TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2007
Open Forum: `Affirmative Action: Dead or Alive?
2:15 p.m. - USC Davidson Conference Center, Embassy Room
Ward Connerly, who has led anti-affirmative action initiatives in three states, will join journalist and author Ellis Cose along with other panelists Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 16, at a forum exploring the status and future of affirmative action in the United States.
Cose is a Newsweek contributing editor and the author of the special report Killing Affirmative Action: Would ending it really result in a better, more perfect Union? published by IJJ; Ward Connerly was sponsor of California’s Proposition 209 and serves as chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute. Also joining the panel: Jennifer Gratz, executive director of the anti-affirmative action Michigan Civil Rights Initiative and plaintiff in the Gratz v. Bollinger U.S. Supreme Court case; Andrea Guerrero, a San Diego attorney and author of Silence at Boalt Hall: The Dismantling of Affirmative Action, and Darnell Hunt, director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. Reception follows discussion. RSVP required. To RSVP, click here.
Following the panel a dinner speecg by Ward Connerly:
Pushing for Race-Free Zones in a Race-Minded World
6:00 p.m. - USC Davidson Conference Center, Embassy Room
Ward Connerly, chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute, sponsored California’s Proposition 209 in 1996 and is leading efforts to get similar anti-affirmative action ballot measures approved in other states. RSVP required. To RSVP, click here.
These two events are part of IJJ's weeklong Racial Justice Fellowships conference: "Covering the Complexities of Civil Rights, Equity and Opportunity."
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