Fighting for Justice

Moderator,
Keith Brown, Senior Vice President of BET Networks, award-winning broadcast journalist and author.

Panelists

Esther Cooper Jackson, Civil Rights activist; managing editor and one of the founders of the political and cultural quarterly Freedomways; 
headed the Southern Negro Youth Congress; subject of Fighting for Justice: New York Voices of the Civil Rights Movement.

Clifford L. Alexander Jr., President of Alexander and Associates, attorney, businessman, and former public servant under four US Presidents;
counsel to LBJ during passage of Civil Rights legislation; subject of Fighting for Justice: New York Voices of the Civil Rights Movement.

Dr. Clarence Taylor, Professor of History, Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and Professor of the Black and Hispanic Studies
Department at Baruch; authored The Black Churches of Brooklyn, Knocking At Our Own Door: Milton A. Galamison and the Struggle to Integrate New York City Schools, and Black Religious Intellectuals: The Fight for Equality from Jim Crow to the 21st Century.

Dr. Martha Biondi, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History, Northwestern University; authored To Stand and Fight:The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City.

Shola Lynch, Filmmaker; Director and Producer of Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed; produced: Lessons from Little Rock: A National Report Card, American Gangster (2 episodes), Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 US Hockey Team; and co-produced Matters of Race.

Introductions        
Patricia L. Gatling – Commissioner and Chair, New York City Commission on Human Rights.Katherine Oliver – President, NYC Media Group and General
Manager, NYCTV; Commissioner, Mayor’s Office of Film,Theatre & Broadcasting.

Howard Dodson – Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Choir - C3 Youth Choir of the Christian Cultural Center Reverend A.R. Bernard, Pastor