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Carl Cohen
has taught Philosophy at the University of Michigan since 1955. Professor Cohen was one of the first to challenge affirmative action policies on his campus. His Freedom of Information Act requests of these policies in the mid-1990s are credited with sparking the movement to end race-based admissions at the University. Cohen has served as grievance arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and worked for the Michigan Employment Relations Commission on matters pertaining to morality in policy and law. He is the author of a book called Naked Racial Preference.
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Michael Eric Dyson
is the Avalon Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. Known as a hip-hop intellectual, Dyson is also a Baptist minister. He is the author of Race Rules, Navigating the Color Line, as well as books of cultural criticism about Martin Luther King Jr, Malcom X and rapper Tupac Shakur. He writes a monthly column for Savoy magazine, is a contributing editor at Christian Century, and is a contributor for Vibe magazine. He has received awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and the NAACP.
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