Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcasthttp://www.prattlibrary.org/about/podcasts/rss.aspxPodcast offerings from the Maryland State Library Resource Centeren-uswebmaster@prattlibrary.orgDo We Still Need to Talk About Race? - Ben Jealous and Gerald Torreshttp://www.prattlibrary.org/about/video/index.aspx?id=39338http://www.prattlibrary.org/about/podcasts/index.aspx?id=39338Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:15:31 ESTWith the election of President Obama, some say race is no longer an obstacle to success and that the "American Dream" is more reality than not. Ben Jealous, executive director of the NAACP, and Gerald Torres, professor at the University of Texas Law School and co-author of The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy, will grapple with this erroneous supposition.

Part of the year-long speaker series, "Talking About Race," presented in partnership with the Open Society Institute - Baltimore.

]]>PodcastTalking About Race NOW - Gwen Ifill and Sherrilyn A. Ifillhttp://www.prattlibrary.org/about/video/index.aspx?id=36184http://www.prattlibrary.org/about/podcasts/index.aspx?id=36184Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:38:21 ESTHow 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, 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.

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