By Chester Hartman and Alison Leff. A chapter appearing in Rights at Risk: Equality in an Age of Terrorism, the biannual report of the Citizens’ Commission on Civil Rights and Poverty & Race (May 2002).
Description: The Citizens’ Commission, chaired by PRRAC Board member William L. Taylor, issued, on Lincoln’s birthday (“Is the Republican Party still the party of Lincoln?”) the 7th in its series of biannual reports chronicling “the progress of the incumbent administration, executive branch agencies and Congress in carrying out both their moral and legal duties to end discrimination and advance civil rights and opportunities for all Americans.” The report, edited by Dianne M. Piche, William L. Taylor & Robin A. Reed, contains 21 chapters, covering education, the courts, housing, political participation, affirmative action and employment, justice, lesbian and gay rights, and the digital divide. Among the other contributors are PRRAC Board Chair John Boger (“The New Legal Attack on Educational Diversity in America’s Elementary & Secondary Schools”) and PRRAC Board member John A. Powell (“Urban Fragmentation as a Barrier to Equal Opportunity”).
