African Americans Speak Out

Important town meet. This evening as you all know it's quite important and I think significant that this meeting be held here at the Howard University School of Law and institution it as been long in the forefront in the battle for equal opportunity. This is the institution that some of the great legal giants who worked extremely hard in the development of opportunities for all throughout this country particularly worked on the strategy that led to the Supreme Court's decisions in Brown vs. the Board of Education decisions that we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of through October of this year through October of next year. But we also recognize that not only have we trained great legal mind. In the past we continue to work very hard in training a lot. Of. Sports. And for tomorrow. Our. Responsibility and goal here is to nurture leaders in the legal profession and otherwise leaders in America's

communities and leaders around the world. Tonight you will hear from a number of very important individuals about a topic of great concern to us. As you may know the Howard University School of Law are the students of the Howard University School of Law and then the university itself has filed a brief in the Supreme Court on the case is the University of Michigan affirmative action cases our students filed because of their strong belief in the issues of diversity and opportunity. The university filed because of our great concern about race consciousness and its use in higher education. We hope and pray that the decisions come out favorable. But if they do not we have strategies for moving along and making progress. Tonight this panel we have the wonderful oyster of having not only does this thing wish guests but an outstanding moderator

and I'm here to introduce Representative Artur Davis. Congressman Davis is realizing a dream of his youth. Growing up in Alabama he had always had a concern about the nature of his community and making progress in Alabama. He was able to get an outstanding education and went on to graduate Magna from the Harvard University and then from Harvard Law School. I feel humbled since like many in the audience I graduated not coom but. But Frank you allowed it. As you know. After his graduation Congressman Davis went on to work for the southern part Poverty Law Center worked as an assistant United States attorney. He quirked one of our outstanding federal judges the young man judge Myron Thompson one of the first

African-American federal judges in his state. And Congressman Davis has quite an interesting district here. His district is in Alabama has some of the highest incidents of prosperity on one side and then on another side. Some of the highest incidence of poverty. He is one of our outstanding was. One. Whom we. Are. Proud. He will be the moderator.