Today. Well, i regret to inform you all that weve hit the 75th minute, but me say this for those you who braved the smog, feel free to stick around afterwards. Everyones going to be here and were happy to chat. For those of you who are watching there, thank you for tuning in. And if we can, can we please get a round of applause . Our panel. I would like to now introduce our first moderator, Tracey Edwards tracy serves as long island director of the acp. Supporting ten branches in nassau and Suffolk County focused on education, Voting Rights and civic engagement. Public safety, criminal justice and environmental justice. As an elected member of the huntington town council, she focused on providing services to unemployed and underemployed residents, including job access to Job Development of life skills and access to not for profit assistance. So please join me in welcoming the stage. Councilwoman tracy edwards. Hi. Well, dont you look marvelous. I am thrilled to call moderate event with
I would like to now introduce our first moderator, Tracey Edwards tracy serves as long island director of the acp. Supporting ten branches in nassau and Suffolk County focused on education, Voting Rights and civic engagement. Public safety, criminal justice and environmental justice. As an elected member of the huntington town council, she focused on providing services to unemployed and underemployed residents, including job access to Job Development of life skills and access to not for profit assistance. So please join me in welcoming the stage. Councilwoman tracy edwards. Hi. Well, dont you look marvelous. I am thrilled to call moderate event with former congressman steve israel. Representative israel served in the us congress. From 2001 to 2017, including four years as chairman of the Democratic Congressional campaign committee. He left washington unindicted. He left washington undefeated and he. He left to pursue new passions and 2021, he opened a small independent bookstore for th
Im a scholar here at the American Enterprise institute, and it is my great honor and pleasure to welcome all of you to aei for this special forum to mark the 60th anniversary of the march on washington. The march took place on august 28th of 1963, so were a little early marking the anniversary and we decide it to be a little early so that we could bring together people who will otherwise be scattered across a variety of events and celebrations this month. And as a result, we really do have an extraordinary lineup of sessions today looking at the march and its legacy and the broader Civil Rights Movement from a variety of angles, thinking about what it has to say to us now in ways that are both timeless and timely. Were going to hear from scholars, from journalists, from policy thinkers, from religious leaders. Some of them are colleagues here at aei, including our president , robert doar, who has a lifelong connection to the Civil Rights Movement and conceived of this event. And some a
Thank you for being here. Im yuval levin. Im a scholar here at the American Enterprise institute, and it is my great honor and pleasure to welcome all of you to aei for this special forum to mark the 60th anniversary of the march on washington. The march took place on august 28th of 1963, so were a little early marking the anniversary and we decide it to be a little early so that we could bring together people who will otherwise be scattered across a variety of events and celebrations this month. And as a result, we really do have an extraordinary lineup of sessions today looking at the march and its legacy and the broader Civil Rights Movement from a variety of angles, thinking about what it has to say to us now in ways that are both timeless and timely. Were going to hear from scholars, from journalists, from policy thinkers, from religious leaders. Some of them are colleagues here at aei, including our president , robert doar, who has a lifelong connection to the Civil Rights Moveme
Im yuval levin. Im a scholar here at the American Enterprise institute, and it is my great honor and pleasure to welcome all of you to aei for this special forum to mark the 60th anniversary of the march on washington. The march took place on august 28th of 1963, so were a little early marking the anniversary and we decide it to be a little early so that we could bring together people who will otherwise be scattered across a variety of events and celebrations this month. And as a result, we really do have an extraordinary lineup of sessions today looking at the march and its legacy and the broader Civil Rights Movement from a variety of angles, thinking about what it has to say to us now in ways that are both timeless and timely. Were going to hear from scholars, from journalists, from policy thinkers, from religious leaders. Some of them are colleagues here at aei, including our president , robert doar, who has a lifelong connection to the Civil Rights Movement and conceived of this e