Lisa Crooms-Robinson Editor

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Claude Steele is Provost of the University and Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. Lawrence D. Bobo is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. He holds appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of African and African American Studies. Michael Dawson is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. Gerald Jaynes is Professor of Economics and African-American Studies at Yale University. Lisa Crooms-Robinson is Professor of Law and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Howard University. Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University and Founding Director of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.