WATCH: ‘The Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action’ – The 2023 Hutchins Forum

Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Henry Louis Gates Jr. hosted the 2023 Hutchins Forum on the rise and fall of affirmative action.

Watch the event in the player above.

Panelists include:

Jay Caspian Kang (The New Yorker)

Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law School)

John McWhorter (Columbia University)

Melissa Murray (NYU School of Law)

Laurence H. Tribe (Harvard Law School)

The 2023 Hutchins Forum is presented live at the Old Whaling Church in Martha's Vineyard in partnership with the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard and the PBS NewsHour.

For more of the NewsHour's coverage on affirmative action click here.

For more, read the following:

• Study outlines how college admissions practices benefit richest applicants
• Affirmative action ruling raises concerns over impact on medical school diversity
• Affirmative action ruling prompts new push to end legacy admissions