Pacific Legal Foundation invites you to join us for a virtual discussion series examining the critical issues at stake in America.

Was 2020 a Turning Point for Identity Politics?
Jan 15, 2021
Virtual via Zoom
 3:00 pm EST/12:00 pm PST
 

Featured Speakers
Gail Heriot, United States Commission on Civil Rights
Glenn Loury, Brown University
Wen Fa, Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation

2020 was a year of racial strife in America. Protests over police brutality toward minorities and the rising popularity of identity politics sought to establish race as a core tenet of American identity and political power.

Yet, at the same time, the Supreme Court in 2021 will consider a landmark case claiming that Harvard has discriminated against Asian American applicants in order to increase admissions of other minority groups. Add to that the surprising failure of Prop 16, a California ballot initiative designed to overturn the ban on affirmative action, in a year the state otherwise voted overwhelmingly Democrat.

Despite the public pressure to “do something” about race, these recent political trends have us wondering, is affirmative action dead? Join PLF and our panelists for a discussion on the state of race and identity in America, and what’s at stake in the coming year.