Legal scholars, educators and community leaders from across the nation joined to discuss the impact of power and privilege on America's democracy and the future of the nation's children. In a session moderated by Charles Ogletree, law professor and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard, four panelists highlighted the importance of civic engagement in communities of color, which have been most recently threatened by voter suppression efforts.
Joining the panel was Donna Brazile, political strategist, syndicated columnist and television commentator, who said she got her start in politics at the age of nine. "And it was simply a request to build a playground in our community that motivated a child like me to go door to door, urging my friends to get their parents to go and register to vote. That was 1969. And here we are in 2012…I never thought I would see the day when we would spend most of our time and our resources protecting and defending the gains that we've made."
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