Welcome to our newsletter, Digital Transatlantic Dialogue. If you haven't joined us yet, w e are offering webinars every week on a specific public policy or cultural topic with experts from our inspiring community!

Today's Newsletter
  1. Webinar: Civil Rights, Capitalism & US History
  2. Interview with Marcia Chatelain
  3. Protests: Police Violence & Racial Injustice
  4. Previous webinars
  5. Covid-19 Sources
Webinar
We invite you to join us for a Zoom webinar this Thursday at 1:00pm ET to discuss the current US protest movement. The event will feature guest speaker Dr. Marcia Chatelain , Young Leader '15 and professor at Georgetown Univeristy.



with
  Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University
Moderated by  Lorrie Fair Allen , Program Director, Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project

  • Topic: Civil Rights
  • Date & Time: Thursday, June 4 at 1:00 pm ET
  • RSVP: Click HERE to sign up. Registered guests will receive a link to join in the days leading up to the event.
Interview With Marcia Chatelain, Young Leader '15
Marcia Chatelain is a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University. The author of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration (2015), Chatelain is a scholar of African American life and culture.

Q. Besides being an author, you also teach at Georgetown and lecture to various audiences about social issues, the history of slavery, and activist movements. What kinds of social issues are you focusing on currently?
  • "I try to focus my work on people and communities that have been targets of contempt and victims of misunderstanding—girls, the poor, people of color. So, although my books are about seemingly different topics (African American girls during the mass migration of Southerners to the urban North in the U.S., black fast food franchise owners), the unifying theme is the hidden stories that animate our current conversations. (...)"

Click HERE to read our full interview with Dr. Chatelain from January 2020 following the release of her latest book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.
Protests: Police Violence & Racial Injustice
  • "Two incidents separated by twelve hours and twelve hundred miles have taken on the appearance of the control and the variable in a grotesque experiment about race in America. On Monday morning, in New York City’s Central Park, a white woman named Amy Cooper called 911 and told the dispatcher that an African-American man was threatening her. (...)"

  • "Barbara Davidson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, was covering a protest near The Grove shopping mall in Los Angeles on Saturday when a police officer ordered her to move. (...)"

  • "People in cities around the world have marched in solidarity with demonstrators in the US, as politicians and public figures unite to condemn the killing of George Floyd. (...)"

  • "Mass protests that have erupted over police brutality toward black people in America are raising concerns about the risk of spreading the coronavirus. But some health experts, even as they urge caution, said they support the demonstrations — because racism also poses a dire health threat. (...)"
Previous Webinars
Check out the full recordings of our webinars. The links below will take you to a 15-minute preview on Dropbox. You'll have the option to download the full file on the side of the page.


  1. How Coronavirus Will Change Geopolitics
  2. Coronavirus: The Infodemic?
  3. Book Reading: A Hundred Suns
  4. Book Talk: The Cactus League
  5. Creative Insights With Marc Levy
  6. Crisis Management During COVID-19
  7. Economic Impacts of COVID-19
  8. Virtual Cooking Class With Melissa Clark
  9. Racing to a Vaccine
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