This is the 20th year of the Myers Outstanding Book Awards Advancing Human Rights, a unique honor. The Myers Center, established in 1984 and now based in Boston at Simmons College, works to promote analyses and ideas that can help ordinary people become more active in creating a more just and equitable multiracial and multicultural society. For more info, please go to www.myerscenter.org. For additional information on the authors and contents of the books, please contact lorewill@myerscenter.org, or call 617-521-2171.

Co-sponsors of the book awards are B'nai Brith International, American Friends Service Committee, Center for Democratic Renewal, Fellowship of Reconciliation, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Conference for Community and Justice; National Urban League, PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), Political Research Associates, Poverty & Race Research Action Council, Unitarian Universalist Association, United Church of Christ, and individual and institutional donors.

Thanks, Simmons College, for hosting the Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.

Loretta J. Williams, PhD, Director
Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
Simmons College
300 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02215