<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/stories/recognizing-inequities-is.html" dsn="news"><hide/><featured/><pubDate>02/03/2021</pubDate><title>President’s Message: Recognizing inequities is an important first step</title><description>On Jan. 20, Kamala Harris, our first female, Black and Asian vice president, took the oath of office. As she laid her hand on the bible of Thurgood Marshall, she was surely thinking about this mentor and civil rights pioneer, who as a young lawyer successfully argued the case of Brown vs. Board of Education, which desegregated our nation's schools.</description><image><img src="/_resources/images/AT-presidentsmsg-2018.jpg" alt="Aaron Thompson"/></image><tags><tag>president</tag></tags></item>