USC Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism (IJJ) presents a discussion exploring the future of civil rights and equity in America. The forum will feature 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 California’s 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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