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    One Mediator's View Of How To Compromise In Times Of Division

    Grande Lum led the Community Relations Service, a Justice Department agency that aims to heal divisions and broker compromise, under former President Obama.
    Mar 26, 2018 3 minutes
    Barbara Jackson, of Sanford, Fla., protests outside the Seminole County Courthouse during the George Zimmerman trial Tuesday, June 11, 2013, in Sanford. (Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP)

    In a time of deep divisions, changes are being proposed at one federal agency that aims to heal those divisions and broker compromise: the Community Relations Service, an agency within the Department of Justice.

    President Trump’s latest budget proposal calls for it to be transferred within the DOJ, and its former director under President Obama, Grande Lum, says that would gut the agency.

    ‘s Robin Young speaks with Lum () about his concerns about the agency’s future, and what it takes to .

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