Overview
Video after video showing black men, women, and sometimes children being assaulted, shot, and killed by police goes viral. Poverty, failing schools, unemployment, and incarceration continue to disproportionately affect black communities. Black Lives Matter becomes a movement and is quickly met with the dismissive counter that Blue Lives Matter, All Lives Matter. Is this progress?
As President Barack Obama’s time in the White House draws to a close, host Keli Goff and her guests will discuss how his historic presidency has made an impact on national conversations about race, justice, and inequality from policy matters to pop culture. Then they’ll examine how Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump are poised to impact race relations in the future.
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PANELISTS
Jonathan Alter, reporter and author of “The Promise: President Obama, Year One” (2010) and “The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies” (2013)
Don Lemon, CNN correspondent and anchor of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon
Daryl Davis, blues musician and author of “Klan-destine Relationships: A Black Man’s Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan.” The book chronicles his experience working to improve race relations by seeking out and befriending members of the Ku Klux Klan, several of whom he convinced to leave the organization.
Ron Christie, former special assistant to President George W. Bush and deputy assistant to Vice President Dick Cheney. He is also author of three books on race and politics in America.
About the Series
This election season, sidestep the horserace and join us for our only-in-New York cocktail party and conversation series for the politically curious. This is not another partisan shoutfest or predictable pundit roundtable. These are conversations that will be clever, passionate and political, yet civil. Thoughtful contrarianism is encouraged. Talking points are not.
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About Keli
Part of The NEXT New York Conversation series which brings together changemakers, newsmakers and tastemakers to illuminate relevant topics that are redefining and reshaping our 21st century.
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