Let's Talk Diversity: Moving from Inequity and Inclusion to Action

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Register now to hear Richard Rothstein on Nov. 4 from 6:00-7:30 p.m. for the Let's Talk Diversity series.

Register now to hear guest speaker Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, via Zoom. 

The Northwest Arkansas Council, Walmart, Engage NWA, Sam M. Walton College of Business and the Dr. Barbara A. Lofton Office of Diversity & Inclusion are hosting the event as part of a Let's Talk Diversity series. 

Faculty, staff, students and the public are invited to attend. Register now. 

Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right, Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap and The Way We Were? Myths and Realities of America's Student Achievement. Rothstein co-authored All Else Equal: Are Public and Private Schools Different? and The Charter School Dust-Up: Examining the Evidence on Enrollment and Achievement.

For additional information, contact Barbara A. Lofton, director of diversity and inclusion at Walton College at 479-575-4557.

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