Good afternoon everyone. I am congresswoman i am truly honored to have all of you here. [applause] as we host our first Congressional Black Caucus annual legislative conference and brain trust on Foreign Policy. This years discussion will focus on the continent of africa, the challenges it faces and its future as a rapidly growing continent. Our theme is our africa, our future. Which coincides with and takes its inspiration from the 60th anniversary of the african union. Celebrated this year. We are having this conversation at a time of tremendous challenges but also tremendous opportunities for the people of africa. Africa is dealing with the growing threat of the climate crisis. With severe drought, famine reimaging the horn of africa the increasing instability. But africa is also undergoing a tremendous Economic Growth. The center for international internationaldevelopment projecn african countries will be among the 15 Fastest Growing economies over the next five years. Improving Ed
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Connections was a kind of leadership out of a black congregation, particularly the clergy. In this discussion, i am going to talk too much about men but, males have dominated in some ways the kind of conversation about american politics for a number of reasons as we can see. Let us see if my little thing works. Let us try that again. So, there are a host of characters. I will not talk about all of them. There are some things that i really want you to Pay Attention to. One, it says Indigenous Community organizations. Black churches are Indigenous Community organizations. Because it is controlled by the people at the very lowest level. At the ground level. I dont mean that in terms of status but at the ground level. And therefore, you can see that it creates its own organic leadership. A leadership that belongs to its own community. And we will talk about that a little more, these terms, ecclesial politics. National personalities. One of the things that you will see is that black clergy
If i can ask everyone to please put their phones on silent mode and let me also welcome you to the campus of George Washington university. Its a real treat, a real pleasure and a privilege to once again host chairman mccall on campus. Hes been chairman of the House Homeland Committee since 2013. At a time where there seems to be quite a bit of gridlock in washington, d. C. , i can say without any exaggeration, he is arguably one of the most prolific and more importantly, effective legislators in d. C. Right now. Focused on a whole host of National Security issues, and also chairs his committee in a genuinely bipartisan kind of way, which is very true to the issues our country faces on national and Homeland Security. Im going to be very brief, which is very rare for me, since ive never had an unspoken thought. But im going to turn it over to the chairman now, and afterwards, we have an amazing panel. When you think about members of congress, you dont immediately think cia, you dont imme