working? it ise is sherry mueller, my privilege to serve as director of the public diplomacy council and to welcome each of you in this room to the first monday forum, a monthly event the public diplomacy council cohosts with a public diplomacy alumni association and the university of southern annenberg center for leadership communication and policy. also, just to correct, i saw the president here. it is the public diplomacy association of america. we got it. i promise. all three organizations are really pleased to cohost our special guest, dr. vivian walker, will be introduced by one of our board members in a few minutes. i just wanted to let you all know we are grateful to george washington university. they are renovating the normal room we work with. i appreciate the patient s of all of you the patience of all of you. we are grateful for all of the hospitality you provide to us for these first monday forum in the first monday forum first monday forms. the first monday f
browse all of our products. next, we hear from the executive director of the u.s. advisory commission on public diplomacy talking about the commission s history and recommendations for furthering its agenda. once again, if i could have is thetion please, mike working is the mic working? it ise is sherry mueller, my privilege to serve as director of the public diplomacy council and to welcome each of you in this room to the first monday forum, a monthly event the public diplomacy council cohosts with a public diplomacy alumni association and the university of southern annenberg center for leadership communication and policy. also, just to correct, i saw the president here. it is the public diplomacy association of america. we got it. i promise. all three organizations are really pleased to cohost our special guest, dr. vivian walker, will be introduced by one of our board members in a few minutes. i just wanted to let you all know we are grateful to george washington unive
washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. joining us to take to talk about her book one person, no .ote is the author why did you write this book? the book emerged out of two one was the 2016 election and there i saw the pundits keep talking about people just didn t show up. up andople didn t show hillary lost because black people weren t feeling hillary. that and it did not make sense because this was the first election in 50 years without the protection of the voting rights act. we had a series of laws coming through, targeting african-americans, so i wanted to lay out how voter suppression s.rks because host: what protections were under the voting rights act. passedin 1965, congress the voting rights act. it began to deal with the massive disenfranchisement happening particularly in the south. where you had counties that had a majority black population, but zero african-americans were registered to vote. what the voting rights a
once again, if i could have your attention, please. is the mike working? the mike is working. itname is sherry mueller and is my privilege to service as president of the public diplomacy council and to welcome each of you in this room to the first monday forum, a monthly event that public diplomacy council cohosts with a public diplomacy alumni association. and the university of southern annenberg annual center for leadership, communication, and policy. also, just to correct, i saw the president here, it is the public diplomacy association of america. we got it, i promise. all three organizations are really pleased to cohost our special guest, dr. vivian walker, who will be introduced by one of our board members,. botch in a few minutes peter kovach in a few minutes. we are very grateful to george washington university, they are renovating the normal room that we work with and i appreciate the patience of all of you. we are grateful to the elliott school and anthony desa