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16th Annual Beer Summit
Please join us on Wednesday July 17 from 6 to 7:30 pm for our 16th annual Beer Summit Conversation on Race at the Independence Visitor Center (IVC). The IVC is located on Independence Mall at 599 East Market Street, Philadelphia,19106. The event is free, with limited capacity. To attend, you must register using the button below.
We are excited to announce that our guest "conversationalist" will be NY Times bestselling author, Princeton Professor Eddie Glaude, Jr. One of the nation's most prominent scholars, Dr. Glaude Jr. is an educator, author, political commentator, and public intellectual who examines the complex dynamics of the American experience. His writings, including Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, and his The New York Times bestseller, Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for our Own, take an exhaustive look at Black communities, the difficulties of race in the United States, and the challenges we face as a democracy.
His latest book, We Are The Leaders We Have Been Looking For--https://www.hup.harvard.
Glaude is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in African American Studies at Princeton University. He is also on the Morehouse College Board of Trustees. He frequently appears in the media as an MSNBC contributor on programs like Morning Joe and Deadline Whitehouse with Nicolle Wallace. Glaude is a native of Moss Point, Mississippi.
The Beer Summit is part of Global Citizen’s ongoing series of conversations on race, class, and power. It marks the anniversary of the 2009 arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates on his own front porch by Cambridge Police sergeant James Crowley, followed by what became known as the Beer Summit, hosted at the White House by President Obama. At the same time as the White House conversation over beer, Global Citizen organized our own Beer Summit in Philadelphia for concerned citizens to meet and discuss race relations in our city and throughout America.
Global Citizen is a non-profit organization founded in 1995 to promote, lead, and advance social and racial justice efforts through ongoing civic engagement and citizen action among diverse groups. In addition to the Beer Summit, Global Citizen programs include the annual Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King Day of Service, the oldest and largest King Day event in the nation; and the year-round Reading Captains initiative, which protects every child’s right to read in Philadelphia by connecting community volunteers with a citywide movement for early literacy.
The focus of Global Citizen programs include poverty, gun violence prevention, racial equity, literacy education, service learning, community-building, public health, economic opportunity, digital inclusion, the environment, leadership development and civic dialogues.
We hope you will be able to join us on Wednesday, July 17 at 6 pm. Please let us know if you have any questions or need additional information -- info@globalcitizen365.org.
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Age Minimum (with Adult): 18+, Minimum Age:18+
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