Keynote Speaker: Christopher Edley, Jr, author, Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law, and former member of the US Commission on Civil Rights. Edley, joined Boalt Hall as Dean and Professor of Law in 2004 after 23 years as a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is the first African-American dean to lead a top-ranked US law school. Edley was co-founder of the Harvard Civil Rights Project, a renowned multidisciplinary research and policy think tank focused on issues of racial justice. His lecture topic will address "The Future of the Civil Rights Movement".

The event is free and open to the public. Held at Goddard Auditorium, Carpenter Hall, on the campus of Earlham College. For more information, call (765)983-1317.

In today's Pal-Item, Harmony Marsh has an editorial titled "Even in our current time, does race still matter all that much?"

I'm tired of talking about what needs to be done for black people or for Hispanic people or for Asian people. Why can't we just talk about what needs to be done for people? Everyone has the same basic needs and there isn't one group of us that are so special that we should be getting all the attention. Then again, if race shouldn't be so important, and I don't think it should matter, why do I continue to shout that particular opinion at the top of my lungs?