Beer Summit Conversation on Race, Class & Power

Please join us on Wednesday, August 5, 6 - 8 p.m. for the 18th annual Global Citizen Beer Summit Conversation on Race, Class & Power. This year’s conversation will focus on Erasing American History: The Assault on Black America. A focal point of the conversation will be the ongoing movement to preserve, protect, and defend the President’s House Slavery Memorial on Independence Mall.

Conversationalists:

• Michael Coard, activist; civil rights attorney; co-founder, Avenging the Ancestors Coalition (ATAC)
• Lorene Cary, Penn Law School professor; novelist, scriptwriter, President's House Slavery Memorial exhibit
• Carl Singley, former dean, Temple Law School; chair, Steering Committee, Ona Judge Coalition

Moderator:

• Loraine Ballard Morrill, board chair, Global Citizen; director, news & community affairs, iHeartMedia Philadelphia

The annual Beer Summit conversation brings together diverse groups who are interested in issues of racial and social justice. It will be moderated by Global Citizen board chair and iHeartMedia Philadelphia director of news and community affairs, Loraine Ballard Morrill, with presentations by three conversationalists (panelists), as well as everyone participating in small breakout conversations led by table facilitators.

Free beer, soft drinks, and light food will be served. As always, we hope to leave the event with a plan of citizen action.

Background

In the aftermath of the summer 2009 arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates on his own front porch for disorderly conduct by Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley, President Obama invited the two for a conversation at the White House. The meeting, which was held over beer in the Rose Garden, came to be known as the "Beer Summit." At the same time in Center City, Philadelphia, Global Citizen organized a Beer Summit conversation for concerned citizens to discuss the incident, racism in our city, and throughout America. We have held this annual conversation for the past eighteen years. Beer Summit conversationalists have included Princeton Professor and MS NOW commentator Eddie Glaude Jr, local activist and CUNY Professor Marc Lamont Hill, Yale Professor Elijah Anderson, Black Doctor’s Consortium founder Dr. Ala Stanford and WURD Radio talk host Solomon Jones.

Global Citizen

Global Citizen is a non-profit organization founded in 1995 to promote, lead, and advance racial and social justice through ongoing civic engagement and activism among diverse groups. Areas of focus include poverty, community-building, literacy education, public health, economic opportunity, digital inclusion, the environment, leadership development and civic dialogues. Year-round programs include the annual Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King Day of Service, the largest King Day event in the nation, Reading Captains early child literacy initiative, Neighbors in Action workshops, and other civic engagement initiatives. Our newest project will be connecting SNAP benefit recipients with volunteer opportunities to meet one of the new requirement options.

The Beer Summit is free, but you must RSVP here to join us. For more information about Global Citizen - globalcitizen365.org.

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