Which Way, L.A.?
King's Legacy
30 years after Martin Luther King's death, we have a large black middle class and corporate America has embraced the civil rights agenda. Does this mean the revolution is dead or is it still far from complete? Does civil rights discourse create racial division where it seeks unity? And is the civil rights establishment too concerned with perpetuating itself?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readGenethia Hayes: Executive Director, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, LA Chapter Peter Kirsanow: Chairman, Center for New Black LeadershipReverend Madison Schockley II: Pastor, Congregational Church of Christian Fellowship, United Church of Christ, Mid-City Los Angeles Joe Hicks: Executive Director, City of Los Angeles Human Relations CommissionGary Orfield: Professor of Education and Social Policy at Harvard University; Co-director of the Civil Rights Project Gregory Rodriguez: Research Fellow at the Pepperdine Institute for Public Policy; frequent contributor to The Los Angeles Times Op-Ed Pages. Jim Sleeper: Author of "The Closest Of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York" and "Liberal Racism" Raphael Sonenshein: Political Science Professor at Cal State Fullerton; Author of Politics in Black and White; Race and Power in Los Angeles; currently (on leave from Cal State Fullerton to serve as) Executive Director of the Appointed Charter Reform Commission in Los Angeles
