Andrew Breitbart is in the news because of a video on a conservative website . The video shows a young Obama embracing Bell at a last year Harvard demonstration . Harvard , who died 1991 , was a major academic on race and the law . However , many who knew Bell through his legal and teaching career express admiration for his life 's achievements and his academic prowess . `` Bell 's pursuit of racial and social justice and his dogged critique of liberal incrementalism in universities and elsewhere was like a persistent wind that changed the landscape of law schools and influenced the larger academic world as well , '' wrote Harvard law professor Lani Guinier and Texas School of Law professor Gerald Torres in a remembrance of Bell published in the `` Chronicle of Higher Education . '' The website of the late Derrick Bell claims Bell promoted anti-white views .
Andrew Breitbart is in the news because of a video on a conservative website . The video shows a young Obama embracing Bell at a last year Harvard demonstration . Harvard , who died 1991 , was a major academic on race and the law . The website of the late Derrick Bell claims Bell promoted anti-white views .