E-mail a friendOctober 13, 2004
Tavis and his roundtable guests - law professor Kimberlè Williams Crenshaw, activist Antonio Gonzalez, radio talk show host Dennis Prager and columnist Debra Saunders - analyze the final Bush-Kerry showdown.
Debra Saunders
Debra Saunders
The San Francisco Chronicle's Debra Saunders is a nationally syndicated columnist who's also written pieces for The Wall Street Journal, National Review and The Weekly Standard. She was formerly a columnist and editorial writer for the Los Angeles Daily News. At one time Saunders was a registered Democrat. She says she's now a Republican, but not a good one. She's also done political work for U.S. Senate and congressional races
Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host. He's also a lecturer and columnist whose writings have appeared in major national and international publications. Prager taught Russian and Jewish history at Brooklyn College and was appointed by President Reagan to the U.S. Delegation to the Vienna Review Conference on the Helsinki Accords. The Los Angeles Times has called him "an amazingly gifted man and moralist."
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
A respected scholar on law and race, professor Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw splits her time between the UCLA and Columbia law schools. The Harvard alum co-founded the African American Policy Forum and was a founding member of the Women's Media Initiative. She also facilitated workshops for civil rights activists in Brazil and constitutional court judges in South Africa. Crenshaw recently wrote an article in the winter issue of Ms on how civil rights language has been used to try to halt affirmative action.
Antonio Gonzalez
Antonio Gonzalez
Antonio Gonzalez helms the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (SVREP), the country's oldest and largest nonpartisan Latino voter participation organization. He guided the undertaking of the '96 Latino Vote USA and Latino Vote 2000 campaigns, which mobilized record numbers of new voters. For the '06 midterm elections, the SVREP launched a Spanish and English language media campaign targeting young people. Gonzalez also hosts Strategy Session on Pacifica's KPFK radio in Los Angeles.