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...Globe” with New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, Jr., as a keynote speaker. The conference, which ran from Friday through yesterday afternoon, was open to Harvard students and the general public. It was intended to inform attendees of issues affecting the Black community, according to the BLSA??s Web site. Brigid K. Ndege ’10, a Harvard Law School student and BLSA member, said she attended the event to learn about topics that aren’t brought up on a daily basis and also to interact with a larger community. Similarly, freelance business...
...story soon reached the national press, but attention was focused on the letter and not the lack of diversity on the law faculty. Editorial writers at The Washington Post and The New York Times condemned the BLSA??s letter as “banal ethnocentrism” and a “disservice” to the civil rights cause...
...BLSA??s first meetings of the year, “there were African American students who had never been to a BLSA meeting who showed up asking, ‘What’s going on because there were people at my workplace calling me a racist,’” Tyler said...
...Vorenberg, who had worked for civil rights icons like Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy ’48, met with black student leaders numerous times to discuss how diversity could proceed in Bell’s absence. but in this letter, he asserted that while he shared the BLSA??s “goals of racial and social justice,” there were clear differences of opinion on how these goals were to be achieved...
...take control of our education and build the kind of learning environment that we wanted the school to provide us,” said Crenshaw, the BLSA??s representative to the Third World Coalition...