For us, and he didnt just cook it. He donated time and all of that food and that is a commitment to the community and we thank you so much, my friend, ben. I want to thank some other people while we get started, make sure i get these sponsors right. Dominion energy, el hoppa foundation, the joanna foundation, the federal bar foundation, marin, marvell, bradley and anderson it is a law firm if you couldnt tell boomtown, and of course the law firm. Other brie thanks to our dedicated Board Members other brief thanks to our dedicated for members. It takes a lot of work to pull off an event like we are doing this evening. One in particular i would like to call your attention to is the chair of our committee, beau moore, emeritus professor of social science at citadel. Thank you both. And others. You see a lot of people from mp strategy around who made this happen, abigail, megan and the other volunteers. Thank you all for doing that. A couple housekeeping items. We are welcoming cspan here
Interest to a broad audience. I want to frame, before we start, the significance, as we understand it for the study of american politics. This item was stationed describes modern american politics. Context was asian is multidimensional what you cannot deduce the politicians knowledge from tax policy. And then increasingly unidimensional. There is an ideological line. Concurrent with this, there has been an ideological sorting to a lesser extent, but notable in the attitudes of voters. A variety of lyrical dysfunction stems from partisan gridlock. The past couple of decades has produced a large and impressive body for polarization. Congressional behavior for average americans. For number of reasons that i think we will get into in other remarks and more detail, some of the findings from that literature have entered the conversation as among political journalists, the polarization has become go to framing for understanding the maladies of contemporary american politics. In the last two y
And he drove down here and cooked the chicken and sausage for us, and he didnt just cook it. He donated time and all of that food and that is a commitment to the community and we thank you so much, my friend, ben. I want to thank some other people while we get started, make sure i get these sponsors right. Dominion energy, el hoppa foundation, the joanna foundation, the federal bar foundation, marin, marvell, bradley and anderson it is a law firm if you couldnt tell boomtown, and of course the law firm. Other brie thanks to our dedicated Board Members other brief thanks to our dedicated for members. It takes a lot of work to pull off an event like we are doing this evening. One in particular i would like to call your attention to is the chair of our committee, beau moore, emeritus professor of social science at citadel. Thank you both. And others. You see a lot of people from mp strategy around who made this happen, abigail, megan and the other volunteers. Thank you all for doing that.
He is also an anthology that explores the sexual politics of black churches so without further ado please welcome josef sorret. [applause] good evening everyone. Thank you valerie for that introduction thread i want to thank our sponsors as well as their host for the opportunity to moderate this panel of insightful incisive commentators engaging leaders that i want to quickly stay themes of our panel and introduce a panelist and open it up for conversation. Of course this evening our event is entitled the New Jerusalem black life life the church in the struggle for democracy. Our hosts have given us the charge of taking on the theme of the fact that religious belief religious institutions and religious people came to be seen as essential to social freedom. This remains the central paradox in africanamerican life and political history. Our discussion will examine the overlapping challenges of creating a basis for collective activism building independent black institutions determining th
Work and need to work all the time, and the way we work, role work occupies in our life for most men and women is complicated right now in our culture. The Nightingale School about 15 years ago, an allgirl school, had a career day. They invited a corporate lawyer partner, the mother of a child in the school, to come and speak, and she came, and she spoke, and she talked about all the wonderful things she did as partner, and then there was a question period. These were girls between 14 and 18. First question was, what time do you get home for dinner . Second question was, what happens if your child is sick . The third question was, how often do you spend the whole weekend with your child . Not one of these girls asked this woman a thing about the law or law firm or her political beliefs or corporate belief, so that the pressure on women who are corporate lawyers is enormous because underneath them, the generation that theyre raising are complaining, and with justification, perhaps, and