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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Congressional Black Caucus Forum Examines Racial Diversity In Education... 20170923

Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us today. Todays Education Brain trust is called from brown to fisher, increasing racial diversity to improve Educational Equity. I am melanie newman, the chief Public Engagement and Communications Strategist for the nacp Legal Defense fund, the organization i am proud to say i work for and that is responsible for brown and fisher. So i want to give a little bit of hello . Oh. I want to give sorry. I want to give a little bit of background about myself. I am, ive been with the Legal Defense fund since march of this year but worked in the Obama Administration and on the hill for quite some time. But this issue and the reason i am happy to be here with all of you today is personal to me. I am originally from new orleans but also went to school in selma, alabama. Which im sure all of you are familiar with. My father, dr. Norwood, was the first black School Superintendent in selma, alabama [applause] thank you. And when he in 1987

Opinion: Hail to 'the Chief'

'The lessons we learned from 'the Chief' . begin with matters of style but go beyond style to the heart of the art and practice of judging.'

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CT paid leave debated by legislature who also honored Ellen Ash Peters

Ellen Ash Peters, Pioneer on the Connecticut Bench, Dies at 94

The first woman on the faculty of Yale Law School, she was named to the State Supreme Court in 1978 and became its first female chief justice six years later.