Talking About Race NOW - Gwen Ifill and Sherrilyn A. Ifill

 

How to Build Success Without Forgetting the Struggle

Journalist Gwen Ifill of Washington Week and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and author of The Breakthrough: Politics & Race in the Age of Obama, and Sherrilyn A. Ifill, civil rights lawyer and law professor at the University of Maryland School of Law and author of On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century, will discuss this pivotal moment in American history -- what has brought us to this moment, why our history is important, and how we can make this a new beginning for equity and social justice.

This was the first program in a new speaker series, How We Talk About Race, presented in partnership with Open Society Institute-Baltimore.

Recorded On: Thursday, June 4, 2009