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MEDIA
COVERAGE OF EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY
Feinstein
Often Crosses Party Lines on Senate Judiciary Committee
San
Francisco Chronicle
November 19, 2007
Civil
Rights Initiative More Complex Than Black and White
Grain Valley Pointe (Missouri)
October 17, 2007
'Framing
Race and Class in the Wake of Katrina'
WORT
89.9FM (Madison, Wisconsin)
September 18, 2007
Former EJS Irmas Fellow
Shannon Seibert talks with host Stan Woodard about "Framing
Race and Class in the Wake of Katrina," an EJS report authored by Shannon.
Listen to the MP3 audio archive by right-clicking this
link and dowloading the file (audio archive only available for 59 days). Segment
starts at the 45-minute mark. UC
Irvine chancellor's admirers are 'at a loss'
Los Angeles Times
September
14, 2007 Style
Section PiX Judge Motley Fellowship Luncheon Photos
San
Francisco Chronicle
August 5, 2007 Bay
Sunday Show with Barbara Rodgers
CBS5
July 22, 2007
EJS's Motley
Fellow Nicholas Espíritu and Black Alliance for Just Immigration's Gerald
Lenoir talk to host Barbara Rodgers about issues related to immigration and the
Black community. Brown's
legacy lives, but barely
Boston Globe
June 29, 2007
(Op-ed by EJS board chair Charles J. Ogletree Jr., professor at Harvard Law School
and founding and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute
for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School.) Famous
bassist to perform with local students
Contra Costa Times
May 16, 2007
(... "In 2002, the Equal Justice Society commissioned Shelby
to compose a suite for jazz orchestra in honor of the 40th Anniversary of the
Port Chicago Mutiny." ...) Summit
focuses on Asian-Americans
Contra Costa Times
May 5, 2007 OP-ED:
Preserve the Past, Envision the Future - National Park Service -- steward of African-American
history
San Francisco Chronicle
February 25, 2007
(Eva
Paterson co-authored this op-ed with Bob Stanton, former director of the National
Park Service and current chairman of the National Council of the National Parks
Conservation Association.) Poetic
Justice: How Will the Supreme Court Consider Race in America?
acsblog.org
November 28, 2006 A
Fine Tune to Fund Civil Rights
San
Francisco Daily Journal
November
24, 2006 Prop
209: Ten Long Years
The Nation
Posted November 22, 2006 (December 11, 2006 issue) Declining
Black Student Population At UC Campuses
CBS5/KPIX
September 12, 2006
(Kimberly Thomas Rapp included in this Sue
Kwon report.) The
uncomfortable reality -- one year after Katrina
San
Francisco Chronicle
Sunday,
August 27, 2006
(Letter
to the editor by Kimberly Thomas Rapp) Immigrants,
other minorities must find unity
San
Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, May 7, 2006
(Op-ed by María
Blanco, Eva Paterson, Hector Preciado and Van Jones) Conference
Calls for Affirmative Action
The Daily Californian
April 7, 2006 Bay
Area's Population Shifts As Many Leave Calif.
KPIX/CBS 5
March
3, 2006 Class
learns how to fight for cause
Buffalo News
February
23, 2006 Port
Chicago tragedy still strikes angry chords
Contra
Costa Times
February 19, 2006
Big-Band
Salute to the Brave
The
San Francisco Chronicle
February 19, 2006 Eva
Paterson: Katrina keeps on taking
The Sacramento Bee
December 2, 2005 Opinion:
Alito nomination endangers civil-rights legacy
San Francisco Chronicle
December 1, 2005 Lawsuit
alleges feds failed Katrina victims
Bay State Banner (Boston)
December 1, 2005 Angry
hurricane evacuees sue feds
San Francisco Bay View
Novvember 30, 2005 Forum's
Michael Krasny talks with Eva Paterson about Hurricane Katrina and civil rights
issues facing the country
KQED
November 28, 2005 Eva
Paterson on "Air America" with Al Franken
The Al
Franken Show on Air America Radio broadcasted live from San Francisco City
Hall on Thursday, May 12, 2005.
* Clicking on the link above will immediately
start the audio stream of the show. The link to the archive may
change at any time.
May 12, 2005 Civil
rights groups oppose court pick; New coalition says it's not racist to fight nomination
San Francisco Chronicle
May 10, 2005 Some
blacks oppose Brown to federal judgeship
Associated Press
May
9, 2005 The
Nuclear Option: Advise and consent is a two-way street
San Francisco
Chronicle
April 26, 2005
(Op-ed by Maria Blanco and Eva Paterson) New
Issue of 'Stanford Law Review'
Will Rebut a Critic of Affirmative Action
Chronicle of Higher Education
April 22, 2005 Commentary:
Different Battle, Different Struggle
Los
Angeles Times
March 16, 2005
(Written by EJS board member Tobias Wolff) The
Black Student Mismatch Myth in Legal Education: The Systemic Flaws in Richard
Sander’s Affirmative Action Study (PDF)
Journal of Blacks
in Higher Education
Winter 2004/2005 Issue Stanford
to host community forum
Palo Alto Online
February 2, 2005 California
ranking on AP exams on the rise
San Francisco Chronicle
January 26, 2005
(Bill Kidder of EJS quoted
in article.) Top
Foe of Affirmative Action Leaves California Regents
The New York
Times
January 21, 2005
(Eva Paterson quoted in article.) Connerly
retiring as UC regent -- leaves controversial legacy
San Francisco
Chronicle
January 19,
2005
(Eva Paterson quoted in article.)
Bush nominee divides Latinos
San
Jose Mercury News
January 9, 2005
(Eva Paterson quoted in article.)
Affirmative
Action and Military Recruiting Spur Heated
Debate
at Law-School Meeting
Chronicle
of Higher Education
January 10, 2005
(EJS's Bill Kidder is one of
the co-authors, along with Richard Lempert,
a law professor at Univ. of Michigan
at Ann Arbor -- who is mentioned
in this article -- of a paper challenging
the Sander study.) Leah
Garchik on the Port Chicago Event
San
Francisco Chronicle
December 16, 2004 Editorial:
In the key of war
San
Francisco Chronicle
December 10, 2004 Black
law students are hurt, not helped, by affirmative action, professor claims
California Bar Journal
December 2004
(EJS's Bill Kidder quoted
in article.) Affirmative
action no boon for blacks, prof says
ABAnet.org (American Bar Association)
November 19, 2004
(EJS's Bill Kidder quoted in article.) Attorneys
say "Blend It, Don't End It"
(PDF)
Hispanic
Outlook Magazine
November 2004
(Article
references EJS's compliance manual.) Critics
Assail Study of Race, Law Students
Wall Street Journal
November 5, 2004
Note:
EJS is co-authoring a response with Richard Lempert, a professor of law and sociology
at the University of Michigan, who is quoted in this article.
Kamehameha
admissions don't offend our civil rights
The
Honolulu Advertiser
November 1, 2004
(Opinion authored by EJS' Eva
Paterson, Eric Yamamoto and Susan Kiyomi Serrano) Admit
qualified students to UC
San Francisco Chronicle
September 23, 2004
(Editorial published
due in part to efforts by EJS) UC
officials float new plan to set admission GPA at 3.0
The Sacramento
Bee
September 22, 2004
(Article includes quote from EJS' Bill Kidder)
UC
critics question late change to plan to raise admission GPA
San
Diego Union-Tribune
September 22, 2004
(Article
includes quote from EJS' Bill Kidder) Numbers
on '04 SAT are steady; Minority students see slight improvement on college entrance
test
Oakland Tribune and San Mateo County Times
September 2, 2004
(Article
includes quote from EJS' Bill Kidder) New
force emerges on left in civil rights tug of war
Sacramento Bee
August 11, 2004
(A
feature by The Bee's Claire Cooper on EJS) Jazz
suite honors Port Chicago anniversary
Alameda Times-Star
July 29, 2004 Wanda's
Picks: ‘Port Chicago’
San Francisco Bay View
July 28, 2004 Memo
to new chancellor: Keep diverse students on board at UC
San Francisco
Chronicle
July 28, 2004
(Co-authored by EJS's Bill Kidder) Level
UC's unequal playing field
Contra Costa Times
and L.A. Daily News
July 18, 2004
(Co-authored by EJS's Bill Kidder) Texas
Lawmakers Are Urged to Supplement 10-Percent Admissions Policy With Affirmative
Action
The
Chronicle of Higher Education
June 25, 2004
(Covering report
co-authored by EJS) New
Laws Must Counter Resegregation in Higher Education
Daily Journal
(Los Angeles/San Francisco)
June 23, 2004
(Opinion piece by Eva Paterson) Civil
rights advocate worries U.S. going in reverse on race
San Francisco
Chronicle
June 19, 2004
(EJS chairman Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. featured) Gays
in Hawai'i still denied equal housing
The Honolulu Advertiser
June 13, 2004
(Commentary co-authored by EJS board member Eric K. Yamamoto) Race
and Reagan: A Minority View of the Reagan Era
KPIX-TV / CBS5
June 11, 2004
(Eva Paterson interview included in story) In
California, a Misguided Battle Over Race
The Chronicle of Higher
Education
May 21, 2004
(Op-ed by EJS's Bill Kidder and Susan Serrano,
along with Angelo N. Ancheta, legal director for the Civil Rights Project at Harvard
University) A
Continuing Need for Affirmative Action
The
Chronicle of Higher Education
May 21, 2004
(Letter to the editor mentioning
the Compliance Manual) Brown
at Fifty: Fulfilling the Promise
The
Recorder
May 14,
2004
(Article by
EJS Exec. Dir. Eva Paterson) Lawyers'
associations back Harris' decision
San Francisco Examiner
April 29, 2004
(Eva Paterson mentioned in article) Fewer
blacks get in at UC
Sacramento Bee
April 21, 2004
(EJS's Bill Kidder quoted in article)
UC
admits fewer freshmen
Oakland Tribune (also Tri-Valley Herald
and Alameda Times-Star)
April 21, 2004
(EJS's
Bill Kidder quoted in article) UC
turns away thousands of eligible applicants for fall
San Diego
Union Tribune
April 21, 2004
(EJS's Bill Kidder quoted in article) Pushing
To Keep Law Schools Diverse
New York Law Journal
April
9, 2004
(Article on the higher education compliance manual) Sign
of the times?
The Daily Northwestern
April 7, 2004 The
Flawed Compromise of 'All Deliberate Speed' (PDF)
Chronicle of
Higher Education
April 2, 2004
(Op-ed by EJS board member Charles
J. Ogletree, Jr.) Admissions
Manual Drafted For College Diversity
The Sacramento Observer
April 2, 2004
(Article on availability of compliance manual)
New
Legal Guide Available on Preserving Diversity on Campus
National
Association for College Admission Counseling
April 2, 2004
(Newsletter
brief reports on availability of compliance manual) Regent's
stand on UC admissions is on shaky ground
Sacramento Bee
April 1, 2004 Affrmative
Action In School and At Work: A More Homogenized Campus
Detroit
Free Press
March 19, 2004 UC
regent Ward Connerly pushes for multiracial category
Associated
Press
March 17, 2004 Eva
Paterson Recognized as an Attorney of the Year for 2003
California
Lawer
March 2004 Articles
on petition to Calif. Supreme Court to block Governor's cuts to education and
other programs: Lawsuit
seeks to restore higher fees on vehicles; UC students, civil rights advocates
want Schwarzenegger to undo education cuts
San Francisco Chronicle
January 22, 2004 Students
sue over license fee rollback
The Sacramento Bee
January
22, 2004 Lawsuit
challenges reduction of car tax; civil rights groups say Schwarzenegger broke
law
San Jose Mercury News
January 22, 2004 Car-tax
cut challenge put before California justices; Group of students, activists assert
governor did not have authority to reduce levy, make budget reductions
Associated
Press in Oakland Tribune and San Diego Union-Tribune
January
22, 2004
Suit
challenges vehicle-fee lowering
Contra Costa Times
January 22, 2004 Students
sue governor; Petitioners:
Mid-year cuts to UC, repeal of car tax illegal, misuse of power
Daily
Bruin
January 22, 2004
Student
Group Goes to Court Over Budget Cuts
Daily Cal
January
22, 2004 Jose
Padilla and Due Process
New York Times, Letter to the Editor
December 27, 2003 Vinculado
a la clase social el ingreso a UC
La Opinion
November 19,
2003 Study
Links UC Entry, Social Class
Los
Angeles Times
November 19, 2003 Faculty,
Rights Advocates Defend UC Berkeley Admissions Policies
Los Angeles
Times
October 25, 2003 Eva
Paterson participates in radio forum on President Bush's nomination of conservative
Justice Janice Rogers Brown to the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District
of Columbia
KQED Radio (static link unavailable; please search on
site)
October 22, 2003
Nominee
to D.C. appeals court a political lightning rod
San Francisco Chronicle
October 21, 2003 Opinion:
The SAT Warps Debate About Admission
The Daily Californian
October 14, 2003 Prop
54 Fuels Three Days of Race Relations Debates on Campus
Stanford
Report
October 8, 2003 Prop.
54 defeated soundly
San Francisco Chronicle
October 8,
2003 Prop.
54 Soundly Beaten
Sacramento Bee
October 8, 2003 54's
Impact on Health
Stanford Daily
October 7, 2003 Affirmative
action is the least America can do for us
San Francisco Bay View
June 11, 2003
UH
teacher joins case before Supreme Court
The Honolulu Advertiser
March 2, 2003
Affirmative
Action Brief Signed by Nearly 14,000
The Hoya
February
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