Vanessa R. Corcoran is an advising dean and history professor in the College of Arts & Sciences at Georgetown University. In addition to NCR, her writing has been published in America magazine, Commonweal magazine, Today’s American Catholic and Perspectives on History. She tweets @VRCinDC.

Glenn D. Magpantay is a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, an independent, bipartisan federal agency that advises the White House and Congress on civil rights and equal opportunity. 

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