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Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court

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The Importance of Affirmative Action

Glenn Lowry: Oryan Douglas had a strikingly similar academic journey to Clarence Thomas's Scholarship to Holy Cross Law School. Glenn Lowry: We thought that his degree was devalued, that he didn't get the same kind of cache out of the degree once he was looking for a job and trying to move in his career. He assumed that others were assuming that it's a Yale law degree, but with an asterisk next to it. I disagree totally. The system was still there. It was still the segregated mindset of white America.

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