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`UnConvention' tackles race issues

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19960829
Author:Hedy Weiss

Taking his cue from the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, Sen. Bill Bradley observed: "Many people want to change the world; only a few want to change themselves."

Bradley (D-N.J.) made that comment Tuesday at "The UnConvention," a panel discussion of six world-class writers on the issue of race that he moderated.

The goal of the event, sponsored by the Human Relations Foundation of Chicago and held at the Field Museum, was to improve race relations. While no one would suggest the literary talk-fest changed the world - or even moved past the polite and into the arena of the provocative ...

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