E-mail a friendJune 6, 2006
Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree explains why voting in the ‘06 elections is so important. Journalist-author Tom Sancton comments on the profound post-Katrina changes in his New Orleans hometown.
Charles Ogletree
Charles Ogletree
Outspoken civil rights attorney Charles Ogletree is a Harvard Law professor and prominent legal theorist. He has a reputation for taking a hard look at complex legal issues. An expert on the social changes that followed Brown v. Board of Education, his books include All Deliberate Speed and Brown at 50. He was selected by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America and is Founding and Executive Director of Harvard Law's new Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice.
Tom Sancton
Tom Sancton
Tom Sancton is former Paris bureau chief for Time. In 22 years with the magazine, he wrote more than 50 cover stories. He's also co-author of the best seller, Death of a Princess. Raised in New Orleans, Sancton's parallel career is as a jazz clarinetist. Having studied with some of the city's vets, he's appeared at major jazz festivals and recorded more than a dozen albums. The Harvard grad and Rhodes Scholar returns to the city of his youth in his new book, written several years before Katrina, Song for My Father.