E-mail a friendJanuary 15, 2008
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Theodore Shaw discusses challenges to Indiana's voter ID laws—the toughest in the nation. Awarding-winning actor Hal Holbrook talks about his newest film, Into the Wild.
Theodore Shaw
Theodore Shaw
Born in the year of the Brown v. Board ruling, attorney Theodore Shaw has helped lead the national discussion on affirmative action in higher education. His posts have included working in the Department of Justice, academia and, currently, head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), the nation's first civil rights law firm. Shaw has been with the LDF since '82, except for a 3-year period when he taught at the University of Michigan law school. He's also an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School.
Hal Holbrook
Hal Holbrook
In a career spanning some six decades, actor Hal Holbrook has played a wide variety of roles on the stage, TV and in motion pictures. His signature role is in a one-man show, Mark Twain Tonight, which has toured every year since '54 and is one of the longest-running shows in theatre history. He's won a Tony, five Emmys and the prestigious Peabody Award and was inducted into the NY Theater Hall of Fame. Holbrook received a S.A.G. nomination for his work in the film, Into the Wild.