Justice and Journalism Forum: Affirmative Action: Dead or Alive?

USC Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism (IJJ) presented a discussion exploring the future of civil rights and equity in America. The forum featured Newsweek contributing editor and columnist Ellis Cose, 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, sponsor of Californias Proposition 209 and chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute; 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.

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News & Politics

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• USC
• future
• civil rights
• equity
• America
• Ellis Cose
• Jennifer Gratz
• Darnell Hunt

[ladylordess]

Ending Affirmative Action would be a great start to stopping the things that make and keep us separate. The time has come!!!

[rjslade]

At 2:09:30 you can sense the student's tremendous pride in the fact that she believes she never benefitted from affirmative action. She spent the majority of her life in a Prop 209 environment.