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Reinvent the Civil Rights Movement

Series: Reinvent America: Inaugural Series

How do we reinvent the Civil Rights Movement to combat the changing face of racism?
Fifty years after the March on Washington, no one can argue that America has reached the promised land of a society free from racism. People of color today face a very different, and in some ways, more complex, form of systemic racism. This roundtable brought together a wonderful mix of the next generation of civil rights activists to discuss ways we can take advantage of powerful digital tools that would have dazzled those in Martin Luther King Jr.’s time. How do we take the new tools, organize the growing numbers of supporters, and build upon the lessons of that first Civil Rights era to make rapid progress on both the cultural and legislative fronts?

Recorded: July 31, 2013
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  • Jotaka Eaddy

    Senior Advisor to the President & Senior Director for Voting Rights at NAACP

  • Rinku Sen

    President & Executive Director of Applied Research Center

  • Cheryl Contee

    Co-Founder & CEO at Fission Strategy

  • Garlin Gilchrist II

    National Campaign Director at MoveOn.org

  • Joseph Phelan

    Founder of WeAreNotTrayvonMartin.com

  • Christina M. Samala

    Director of 18 Million Rising

  • Ciara Taylor

    Political Director of Dream Defenders

  • Peter Leyden

    Founder of Reinvent

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