Urging a critical vision

Above, the Rev. Amos C. Brown, pastor of San Francisco's Third Baptist Church, second from right, joins fellow panelists, from left, the Rev. Kenneth Clarke, director of Cornell United Religious Work; Dorothy Cotton, former education director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and James Turner, Cornell professor of Africana studies; in a discussion on African American political empowerment and the 2004 elections in the Founders Room of Anabel Taylor Hall, Feb. 6. Brown was the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaker in Sage Chapel, left, on Feb. 5, and he urged a more critical look at U.S. policy, at home and in the war on terrorism. Photos by University Photography