Word: higginbotham
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Cross points to the recent efforts to coordinate searches through different schools. On the search for new faculty member Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, who will teach in both the Divinity School and the FAS, he says "the two faculties cooperated and collaborated...
...Higginbotham, who has been a federal judge for 27 years, discussed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who in the past has sparked controversy with his criticisms of liberals and of civil rights organizations...
Saying that he hopes Thomas has not abandoned the civil rights movement, Higginbotham said, "Some people are willing to let the whole ship sink, to let all the passengers drown, to get safely to shore. I trust that you are not one of them...
...Higginbotham read the group a letter he plans to deliver to Thomas, in which he criticized Thomas's disparaging remarks about civil rights organizations. Regarding Black conservatives, Higginbotham joked, "Other than their own self-advancement, I don't know what they are so eager to conserve...
...concluded his speech by quoting from a poem by Langston Hughes, "To save the dream for one, is to save the dream for all." Higginbotham received a standing ovation...