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Rev. Sharpton speaks on race

Staff Reporter and Contributing Reporter, Staff Reporter and Contributing Reporter
Published Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Rev. Al Sharpton called on the U.S. government to enact race-based policies that foster equity during a speech delivered to a packed crowd Tuesday night in the Law School Auditorium.

In a keynote address for a Yale Political Union debate, Sharpton — a minister, political activist and former presidential candidate — said lawmakers must seek to remedy past racial injustice by passing legislation to bring blacks to a “level playing field” with whites. While some students at the event, which was co-sponsored by the YPU, the Yale College Council and the Black Students Alliance at Yale,...

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