Civil Rights Group Seeks a 'National Conversation'
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Tuesday launched what its leader ambitiously called “the start of a national conversation on formulating a new civil rights agenda for the 21st century,” but without significant input from mainstream civil rights organizations or the panel’s two Democratic members.
The low profile of those stakeholders speaks to the once-influential group’s uncertain status under the administration of President Barack Obama. Created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the commission is currently headed by Gerald A. Reynolds, a Republican who was appointed six years ago by former president George W. Bush. Of the commission’s eight members, four are affiliated with the Republican party and two are registered Independents.
But leaders of prominent civil rights groups did not serve on any panels at the full-day event, and the Democratic commissioners...
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