Episode 158: THE TYRANNY OF MERITOCRACY: An Interview with the Late Civil Right Rights Lawyer Lani Guinier from 2015
Civil Rights trailblazer and legal scholar Lani Guinier died on January 7, 2022 at the age of 71. In her honor I'm posting an interview I did with her in 2015 about her book, THE TYRANNY OF MERITOCRACY: Democratizing Higher Education in America. Guinier was the first African American woman to be a tenured law professor at Harvard University. She also worked on Voting Rights issues with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Here is an excerpt from and a link to an article on the Harvard Law School web site: In Memoriam: Lani Guinier 1950 - 2022 - Harvard Law Today.
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