{"id":1885,"date":"2002-05-19T03:59:28","date_gmt":"2002-05-19T03:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2018-10-19T04:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T04:02:58","slug":"lani-guinier-speaks-at-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/2002\/05\/19\/lani-guinier-speaks-at-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Lani Guinier speaks at Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 19, 2002<\/p>\n<p>Lani Guinier speaks at Commencement<\/p>\n<p><i>Lani Guinier, a professor at Harvard Law School, told the class of 2002 at commencement that they should not fear failure. Guinier herself had faced difficulty when President Bill Clinton had rescinded his 1993 offer to appoint her as the assistant attorney general of civil rights after the nomination generated a lot of controversy. However, she had gone on to become Harvard Law School\u2019s first tenured black female professor. Smith\u2019s acting President Connolly commented that \u201cIt is fitting that she brings her message to Smith at a time that we have been confronting very difficult challenges about race.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton) article on Guinier\u2019s speech can be found <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/2002.05.20.-%E2%80%98You-must-lead-Guinier-exhorts-Smith-grads.jpg\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A Union-News (Springfield) article on Guinier\u2019s speech can be found <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/2002.05.20.-Smith-graduates-told-to-embrace-their-failures.jpg\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 19, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 19, 2002 Lani Guinier speaks at Commencement Lani Guinier, a professor at Harvard Law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[83,37],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2000s","tag-83","tag-civil-rights","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1888,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}