For Your Consideration

On the eve of NAACP Founders’s Day, L. Joy brings Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the organization to the front of the class to discuss a federal civil rights agenda under a new administration, the role of civil rights organizations in our communities and what accountability looks like.

The COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the importance and struggle of the essential workers who work service based jobs providing care for other people. L. Joy brings April Verrett, President of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 2015 – California’s largest union to the front of the class for this discussion.

How do we grapple with gun violence? Who is responsible for public safety? L. Joy brings activists from Atlanta and Milwaukee to the front of the class to discuss how they are treating gun violence as a public health crisis and the strategies they’re implementing that is showing promising results in preventing gun homicides.