E-mail a friendJanuary 26, 2007
Tavis talks with California Rep. George Miller and Columbia University professor Saidiya Hartman.
Rep. George Miller
Rep. George Miller
Rep. George Miller has represented California's 7th District since '75. He was elected chair of the House Education and Labor Committee in the 110th Congress and has also served as House Democratic Policy Committee chair since ‘03. He is one of the four original authors of the No Child Left Behind Act and introduced the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007. A graduate of the UC Davis Law School, Miller served as legislative assistant to state senate majority leader George Moscone before entering the House.
Saidiya Hartman
Saidiya Hartman
Saidiya Hartman on African Americans going to Africa to look for closure.
Dr. Saidiya Hartman specializes in feminism, critical race theory and African American literature and culture. She's a professor in Columbia University's Department of English and Comparative Literature and in its Institute for Research on Women and Gender. A native of Brooklyn, Hartman received her Ph.D. from Yale and has had essays widely published. She's the author of Scenes of Subjection and, her latest, Lose Your Mother, which retraces the history of the Atlantic slave trade.