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Abigail Thernstrom |
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Abigail Thernstrom, a political scientist, is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York, a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, and vice chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Government, Harvard University, in 1975.
Thernstrom and her husband, Harvard historian Stephan Thernstrom, are the co-authors of America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible (Simon & Schuster), which the New York Times Book Review, in its annual end-of-the-year issue, named as one of the notable books of 1997.
She serves on several boards, including the Center for Equal Opportunity and the Institute for Justice. From 1992 to 1997 she was a member of the Aspen Institute's Domestic Strategy Group.
President Bill Clinton chose her as one of three authors to participate in his first "town meeting" on race in Akron, Ohio, on December 3, 1997, and she was part of a small group that met with the President again in the Oval...... (Read more on Wikipedia)
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Yes, the Black Panther Case Is Small Potatoes - — Almost a month ago, I published a piece in NRO titled “The New Black Panther Case: A Conservative Dissent.” The main thrust of the article — now forgotten by everyone, it seems — was that the Obama Justice Department's enforcement of the Voting Rights Act was deeply troubling. |
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Commentary: Why we should worry about Sotomayor - — Editor's note: Abigail Thernstrom is the author of “Voting Rights — and Wrongs: The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections,” published last month by AEI Press. She is the vice-chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights … |
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