Dillard To Host Virtual Panel Discussion About The Capitol Hill Riot, Presidential Transition

From Dillard University:

January 19, 2020

Dillard University’s Center for Racial Justice will host a virtual panel discussion about the transition from the Trump administration to the Biden administration in light of the January 6 riot at Capitol Hill. The event will take place Friday, January 22, 1-2:30 p.m. central time. The event is free and open to the public and can be viewed on the University’s livestream page at www.dillard.edu/live.

“As we look at the attack on the U.S. Capitol, we can and must continue to exercise
our right to speak out, to ‘peacefully’ stand up against injustice and to exercise
our right to vote for those who we feel will support the country we want it to be,”
said Dr. Ashraf Esmail, the director of the Center for Racial Justice.

The panel discussion, called “Who’s America?,” will feature three panelists: Mitch
Landrieu, founder and CEO of E Pluribus Unum and former mayor of New Orleans; Demelza
Baer, director of public policy for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under
the Law; and Oliver Thomas, host of WBOK-AM’s “The Good Morning Show” and Center for
Racial Justice advisory board member. The event will be hosted by Dr. Gary Clark,
chair of the School of Social Sciences and Barron Hilton endowed professor of political
science.

Dillard University, located in New Orleans at 2601 Gentilly Blvd., is a private four-year
liberal arts historically black institution with a history dating back to 1869. For
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