Sept. 19 talk to look at Katrina's victims

Leland Ware

10:27 a.m., Sept. 16, 2005--"The Geography of Discrimination: Why Hurricane Katrina's Victims in New Orleans Were Overwhelmingly Black and Poor" will be the subject of a talk at noon, Monday, Sept. 19, by Leland Ware, Louis L. Redding Professor of Law and Public Policy at UD.

Sponsored by the Black American Studies Program, the free public talk will be held in 205 Gore Hall.

Before coming to UD in 2000, Ware was a professor at St. Louis University School of Law, was university counsel for Howard University, a trial attorney for the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and assistant regional attorney for the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare in Atlanta.

A graduate of Fisk University, Ware received his law degree from Boston College Law School. He has written more than 70 articles in academic journals and other publications on various aspects of civil rights law. He serves on the editorial board of Fair Housing/Fair Lending Reporter and is vice president of the national board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union and on the board of directors of WHYY public radio and television.

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