A panel of state and federal court judges, reporters and editors from major media outlets, and law school and college faculty will discuss and debate the nature, quality and depth of news coverage of courts and their function in America, the challenges th

Carl Colby, film producer and director. Colby is a feature-length documentary on the life of legendary spymaster and CIA Director William Colby, told through the eyes of his Emmy-Award-winning filmmaker son, Carl and Colby’s wife Barbara. The films tell

Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Cultural Historian, Actress, and Dancer. Through dance demonstrations and visual images, Dixon Gottschild examines the pervasive Africanist presence in American culture and the sociopolitical implications of its invisibility. With

Nina Davenport, filmmaker. Many Americans expected Operation Iraqi Freedom to be a quick intervention welcomed by the Iraqi people. Yet, over six years later, an American occupation continues. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and over 5,000 Americans have

David Nash, Founding Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University. The United States needs real leadership to tackle the health care system’s core problems: its cost, its poor quality, its limited scope, along with pern

Elaine Brown, Executive Director of the Michael Lewis Legal Defense Committee and former leader of the Black Panther Party. In 1997, Michael “Little B” Lewis, a 13 year-old black adolescent, was sentenced to life imprisonment following his adult convi

Eric Lott, Professor of English, University of Virginia. Bob Dylan popularized Eric Lott’s book by putting its title on his 2001 album “Love and Theft.” Dylan’s “lift” of the title reflected Lott’s view that appropriations are fundamental to

Cindi Katz, City University of New York, Graduate Center. Hurricane Katrina scoured the political economic landscape of New Orleans revealing the toll of decades of disinvestment in and ‘hostile privatism’ toward social reproduction in a city riddled