Last Tuesday, five years after the Supreme Court struck down programs in Seattle and Louisville that used race to assign students to schools, Talk of the Nation broadcast a segment focusing on forced integration. For this segment, host Neal Conan interviewed a Georgetown law professor and a UC-Berkeley public policy professor. The motion was made […]
In 2009, John and Margarita “Maggie” Anderson, an affluent black couple living in Oak Park, Illinois, embarked on a year-long “Empowerment Experiment.” They’d resolved to spend an entire year patronizing black-owned businesses exclusively. That experiment is the focus of a book by Maggie Anderson published just four days ago — Our Black Year. What follows […]
Peggy Taphorn called this afternoon to offer me the role of poker player Vinnie in her February production of The Odd Couple. Craig Rhyne will direct and Temple stalwart Mike Brocki will play Felix/Oscar in rotation with another actor. (They’re calling it “an experiment.”) Craig directed Peggy, Mike Brocki and me in Moonlight and Magnolias […]
