Lee Hawkins + Blair Imani

Over the past two centuries, August 28 has stuck out as an important date in the civil rights movement: it’s when Emmet Till was murdered and Hurricana Katrina hit New Orleans; when the victims of the Tuskegee syphilis study were awarded a $9 million settlement and when Colin Kaepernick kneeled during the national anthem; and it’s when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream Speech and when Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. To commemorate the date, Wall Street Journal writer Lee Hawkins and historian and activist Blair Imani will discuss civil rights in America during a Zoom chat presented by Second Home and the Berggruen Institute.