March 1st Panel - Protest To Policy

Over the past several years, peaking last summer, Black Lives Matter and other social and criminal justice reform protests have amassed tremendous energy and a significant following. With Democrats in control of the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, are there ways to transform the energy of movements – and the individual attention of their followers – into substantive legislative and policy achievements? Featuring: Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman Rev. Charles Boyer, Pastor of Bethel AME and co-founder of Salvation and Social Justice Patrick O’Neal Hall, who serves on the board of Trenton’s Campaign to end the New Jim Crow Lydia Thornton, an advocate for prison reform and formerly incarcerated individual