Nishani Frazier: The Making and Unmaking of One America

'At this Wednesdays at the Center talk at Duke University, Professor Nishani Frazier, Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Kansas,  spoke about the flaws and fallout of President's Initiative on Race, launched by Bill Clinton in 1997. The initiative, titled One America, promised to "help educate Americans about the facts surrounding issues of race, to promote a dialogue in every community of the land to confront and work through these issues, to recruit and encourage leadership at all levels to help breach racial divides, and to find, develop and recommend how to implement concrete solutions to our problems -- solutions that will involve all of us in government, business, communities, and as individual citizens.  Professor Frazier focuses on the President's Initiative on Race, to learn all the lessons it has to teach. In what way can America retool PIR to force a reckoning with American politics and history.'