Julian Bond and Eleanor Holmes Norton in Intergenerational Conversation with Howard University Student Leaders on Solutions to Racial Profiling, Wednesday
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will commemorate Black History Month at Howard University with a community discussion entitled "Crossing the Bridge Together: A Conversation with Student Civil Rights Activists from Different Civil Rights Eras Addressing the Unfinished Business of Racial Profiling in America" on Wednesday, February 18, from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., at the Howard University School of Business Auditorium (2600 6th Street NW). The Black History Month commemoration is open to the public. After a welcome from Howard University Student Association President Leighton Watson, the forum will feature: Julian Bond, a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Georgia Legislator, a NAACP Chair, and currently a visiting professor at American University; Anthony Driver, a Howard University senior who has organized racial profiling student body protests; and Ashley Futrell, the President of the Howard Student Bar Association who has organized discussions on racial profiling and knowing your rights.
"Police shooting in New York City and Ferguson, MO have become a vehicle for an outpouring of activists and citizens in the streets on a scale we have not seen since the Civil Rights Movement," Norton said. "Historic advances were achieved during the Civil Rights era, but profiling on the basis of skin color was not one of them. We want to foster an intergenerational exchange concerning solutions and remedies to racial profiling that we believe are demanded by the nationwide demonstrations."