My name is jodie allen. Im a visiting assistant professor here at sewanee for this score year. I am also working as a consultant on the slavery project. Going back to the panel, i am asking them to answer the question in our program and that is, does history matter to the future of the 15th amendment . I will ask them to think on that and then we will open up for questions and answers with the audience. I dont know who would like to start. Thank you. I think about history and it reminds me of sancofa means you have to know your past to understand your present, to plan for the future. When it comes to the 15th amendment, what we have learned today, and ive learned a great deal from these panelists, we have to understand the intent behind the 15th amendment, the history that gave rise to it, the effect of it. Those people who opposed it and the mechanisms that were put in place as obstacles so we can better understand today the Voter Suppression we are dealing with, the need for White Su
Richard hansen look at federal Voting Rights cases for the past 50 years and talk about how gerrymandering constitute modern forms of voter suppression. This was part of a symposium tled and franchising enfranchasing. It is 1. 5 hours. From lunch. Ack m a our first speaker is william kunz. He was nominated to the federal bench in march 2011 by president barack obama and unanimously confirmed by the United States 3, 2011. October kirsch ized in commercial and labor litigation. He served as the associate or fester Brooklyn Law School from 1987 to 2003. Received an a. B. , and phd from harvard. He will discuss the 15th amendment to the United States constitution with a special on history at the District Court level. Wee will hear from will hear from on election law and campaign finance. He received his undergraduate education at the university of ma andy and received his phd from the university of california los angeles. ,rior to his current position he taught the chicago Campus College o
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Now eleven am on thursday thanks for choosing us to update you on whats happening around the world this hour first for you the exotic portuguese island of terser in the azores in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean is in desperate need of decontamination decades us air force activity have allegedly left it polluted with hydrocarbons and heavy metals and islanders say theyre worried about the prevalence of cancer and other serious illnesses. Were back to twenty thousand the course is not constant its also lights rule this is another constant were now at eighteen twenty one to two thousand leave my two thousand plants in two thousand. And its time to run away from here as weve already stay too long. But we have is a series of locations with extremely high levels of pollution caused by heavy metals the hydrocarbons the heavy metals have serious effects on health there are very high levels of lead in some zones copper zinc molybdenum all of them have a matters that in certain concentrations c