Announcer please welcome the atlantics margarette lowe. [applause] hello, hello, and welcome to the atlantics first summit on athletes and activism. Im margaret lowe, part of the team that brings journalism to stages across the country. We are so happy to be here in washington with all of you at this brandnew arena, where the mystics will tip off against the atlantic dream this saturday night, the first mystics game ever in this arena. [applause] we are thinking of ourselves today as the happy little warmup act for that. And what a wonderful crowd here today. Thank you, all, for joining us. We are exploring the power of athletes who spotlight injustice and spur change. We will hear from olympians, collegiate allamericans, and people who cover sports. And listen to this, our speaker roster has one world cup soccer championship, eight hockey World Championships, nine olympic medals, and one nfl trophy. So we think we have a pretty winning lineup today. Guiding the conversations on stage
This brandnew arena, where the mystics will tip off against the atlantic dream this saturday night, the first mystics game ever in this arena. [applause] we are thinking of ourselves today as the happy little warmup act for that. And what a wonderful crowd here today. Thank you, all, for joining us. Power ofploring the athletes who spotlight injustice and spur change. We will hear from olympians, collegiate allamericans, professionals and from people who cover sports. And listen to this, our speaker roster has one world cup soccer championship, eight hockey World Championships, nine olympic trophy. And one nfl so we think we have a pretty winning lineup today. Guiding the conversations on stage today is my winning colleague, Atlantic Staff writer jamal hill. Jemele writes about the intersection of sports, race, politics and culture. Now we want to learn more about all of you. Poll, andke a quick answering the question requires a cell phone. Phone andour cell and then type in slido. Com
Hello, hello, and welcome to the atlantics first summit on athletes and activism. Im margaret lowe, part of the team that brings journalism to stages across the country. We are so happy to be here in washington with all of you at this brandnew arena, where the mystics will tip off against the atlantic dream this saturday night, the first mystics game ever in this arena. [applause] we are thinking of ourselves today as the happy little warmup act for that. And what a wonderful crowd here today. Thank you, all, for joining us. We are exploring the power of athletes who spotlight injustice and spur change. We will hear from olympians, collegiate allamericans, and people who cover sports. And listen to this, our speaker roster has one world cup soccer championship, eight hockey World Championships, nine olympic medals, and one nfl trophy. So we think we have a pretty winning lineup today. Guiding the conversations on stage today is my winning colleague, Atlantic Staff writer jemele hill. S
today s ad guests. first, doctor damien thomas who is the sports curator of the national museum of african american history and culture. i damien, good morning. good morning, thank you for having me. i m excited to participate in this conversation. glad to have you on. maybe sometime we will be in person, rather than through a box on the screen. our other guest is my former colleague, doctor daniel greene, he s the president of the library in chicago, and he served as the curator of a special exhibition, americans in the holocaust. he also conducted research about the 1936 olympics here in our museum in bc and we are bringing him back to share some of that knowledge. how are things in chicago? things are all right. as much as anywhere. we ask you our viewer please post the questions the experts in the comments section, we will get to them throughout the course of the show if we are able to. if we experience any technical glitches throughout the course of the show, d
we re bringing you a conversation about the 1936 olympics held in nazi berlin. there are so many compelling stories from this moment in history ranging from the personal experience of athletes to the german government s campaign to camouflage its discriminatory policies. please join me in welcoming today s guests. first dr. damien thomas, who is the sports curator at the national museum of african-american history and culture. hi, damian, good morning. good morning. thank you for having me. i m excited to participate in this conversation. glad to have you on and maybe sometime we ll actually meet in person instead of just through a box on the screen. our other guest is my former colleague dr. daniel green. danny is president of the newberry library in chicago, and he also served as curator of the holocaust museum s current special exhibition americans and the holocaust danny also conducted research for an earlier exhibition about the 1936 olympics here at our museum in dc. an