Following a lifetime of public service, research, and theoretical investigation of modern race relations, Baron became involved in economic and ecological development of base communities in Central America. He served as Chair of the Board of…

“He’s the most skilled political leader I’ve ever dealt with. Barack Obama would have a hard time being... smarter than Harold.” - Hal Baron Hal was the public policy architect of the historic mayoral campaign of Harold Washington, and then…

"The beginnings of any substantial American public housing program lay in the Great Depression of the 1930's. Viewed in an overall political sense, the New Deal era was a mixture of social reforms with innovations in state capitalism that took…