Black Community Voice, Civic Engagement, and Identity’s Role in Safety & Resilience
Channel: New America
Date: 12/06/2020

Join New America CA on Thursday, June 11th at 2:30 PM PDT for, Black Community Voice, Civic Engagement, and Identity’s Role in Safety & Resilience, the 4th and final session in our online series, “COVID and the Black Community.”

While it’s true that the COVID-19 outbreak impacts all Americans, it has, quite simply, impacted Black America differently. The coronavirus has deepened disparity. Longstanding systemic barriers and racism have intergenerational impacts and have set the stage on which the current situation is played out -- we cannot respond to the crisis without facing those barriers explicitly and as a community.

On Thursday, we will explore how community voice, civic engagement and how the current protests against America’s other virus – racism – play into the larger conversation of the future of resilience and safety in the Black community and beyond.

Registration is free and open to all.

GUESTS:

Arisha Hatch, @ColorofChange
Vice President & Chief of Campaigns, Color of Change

Dr. Joseph Marshall, @DrAliveNFree
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Alive & Free
MacArthur “Genius” Fellow

Lateefah Simon, @lateefahsimon
President, Akonadi Foundation
MacArthur “Genius” Fellow

MODERATOR:

Autumn McDonald, @Autumn_McDo
Senior Fellow & Head of New America CA

Made possible by the generosity of the MacArthur Foundation and Cash App.

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