Law professor-author Dorothy Roberts | Tavis Smiley | PBS

Law professor-author Dorothy Roberts | Tavis Smiley | PBS: "Roberts, a legal scholar and author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century, examines the political and commercial incentives for continuing the categorization of people by race.

Dorothy Roberts is a leading legal scholar on the interplay of race, gender and class, focusing on reproduction, bioethics and child welfare. A professor at Northwestern's law school, she's published more than 75 articles and essays in books and scholarly journals, including the Harvard Law Review, and authored three award-winning books. Roberts serves as board chair of the Black Women's Health Imperative and on the board of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform. Her latest text, Fatal Invention, is a call to affirm our common humanity."