The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States has reignited the benefits of diversity and inclusion in the work place and higher education. The history of affirmative action and diversity efforts in the United States was the subject of a recent State University of New York television interview with Kevin Antoine, JD, chief diversity officer at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York.
In this excerpt Dr. Antoine discusses of history of Reconstruction after the U.S. Civil War and its impact and influence on present day diversity efforts in employment and higher education in the United States.
Kevin Antoine, JD, is the chief diversity officer for the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. He is a former Harvard Fellow and former U.S. Congressional Candidate. In 1996, he upset the Mississippi establishment by becoming the first African American to win the Democratic Nomination in Mississippi’s predominately white 4th Congressional District.
Kevin also contributes to BlackandBrownNews.com
