Joint Center President Speaks at Congressional Black Caucus Foundational Annual Legislative Conference National Town Hall ‘Ready, Rooted, and Rising: Securing the Future for Black America’

This week, Joint Center President Dedrick Asante-Muhammad provided special remarks at the #ALC55 National Town Hall titled “Ready, Rooted, and Rising: Securing the Future for Black America.”

Asante-Muhammad joined over a dozen speakers, including Bakari Sellers, Chelsea Miller, Yusef Jackson, Alphonso David (President & CEO at Global Black Economic Forum), Vincent Evans (Executive Director at Congressional Black Caucus), Arian Simone, Donald Sherman (President and CEO at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)), Rep. Shontel M. Brown (D-OH), Rep. Alma Adams, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Lakecia Stickney, Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD), Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Rep. Terri A. Sewell (D-AL), Janai Nelson (President and Director-Counsel at Legal Defense Fund (LDF)), Nicole Austin Hillery (President and CEO at Congressional Black Caucus Foundation), Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), and Jonathan M. Cox, PhD. (Vice President at Center for Policy Analysis and Research, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation).

Watch the town hall below.