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Muslims in America

Dr. Zahid H. Bukhari, professor at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, and director of Muslims in American Public Square Project (MAPS), and Lena Alhusseini, executive director of the Arab American Family Support Center and David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee, respond to the recent Pew study regarding Muslims in America.

Pew Research Center Report "Muslim Americans."

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In the Affirmative: Education and Affirmative Action

Ted Shaw, director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Lani Guinier, civil rights scholar, Bennet Boskey professor of law at Harvard University Law School and author of the forthcoming, Meritocracy Inc.: How Wealth Became Merit, Class Became Race, and College Education Became a Gift from the Poor to the Rich and Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University discuss the future of affirmative action in educaton.

Event:
Our guests will discuss The Future of Diversity tonight at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (515 Malcolm X Blvd.) at 7PM. For reservations, call 212 870 2549.

Lani Guinier’s bio at Harvard Law School

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Zbig Picture with Zbigniew Brzezinski

Former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski assesses the last three American presidents in their role as global leader in his new book Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower (Basic Books, 2007).

Second Chance is available for purchase at Amazon.com

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Baghdad: View from the Ground

Bobby Ghosh, Baghdad bureau chief for Time magazine, fills us in on the latest from Iraq as part of a month-long series.

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Open Phones: Post-1965 Immigrants

The proposed immigration reform plan would undo the 1965 reform that made it easier for immigrants to bring their families into the U.S. Listeners call in with how the 1965 law affected them personally.

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