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DESCRIPTION:The District of Columbia's citizens pay taxes, vote in general elections, 
 and bear all the responsibilities of citizenship, yet D.C. still does not 
 have representation as an official state.  Join us for a panel exploring 
 D.C.'s history as a non-state and discuss what's next in the divisive fight 
 for statehood.\n\nDate and Time: Sat, April 10, 2021 @ 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM 
 PDT\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pp-live-the-51st-state-dc-and-americas-future-tickets-146813381777\n\n\nPanelists 
 include:\n\nJames Carroll is the author of twelve novels, and eight works 
 of non-fiction. For twenty-three years, he wrote an oped column for The 
 Boston Globe, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, 
 and other publications. He has received the National Book Award, the PEN 
 Galbraith Award, and the Scripps Howard Award. His new book is The Truth at 
 the Heart of the Lie: How the Catholic Church Lost Its Soul.\n\nE. 
 Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist and author of two memoirs and 
 several poetry collections. He hosts the WPFW morning radio show On the 
 Margin with E. Ethelbert Miller and hosts and produces The Scholars on 
 UDC-TV which received a 2020 Telly Award. Most recently, Miller received a 
 grant from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and a 
 congressional award from Congressman Jamie Raskin in recognition of his 
 literary activism. His latest book If God Invented Baseball, published by 
 City Point Press, was awarded the 2019 Literary Award for poetry by the 
 Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Miller has two 
 forthcoming books: When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball 
 Stories and the little book of e.\n\nAviva Kempner makes award-winning 
 documentaries films about under-known Jewish heroes for over forty years: 
 The Spy Behind Home Plate, Rosenwald, Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, the Peabody 
 winner The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, and Partisans of Vilna. She is 
 currently co-directing and co-producing Imagining the Indian about Native 
 American mascoting and making Pissed Off, a short documentary on the female 
 fight for potty parity in Congress, and a movie on screenwriter and Jewish 
 activist Ben Hecht. Kempner is the editor of SEWomen.org, a new website 
 about sports equality for women. She is also a writer and guest blogs for 
 THEWRAP and other publications. Kempner is a member of the Academy of 
 Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a devoted DC statehood activist and 
 board member of DC Vote.\n\nGeorge Derek Musgrove, Ph.D. is an Associate 
 Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, 
 Baltimore County. He is the author of Rumor, Repression, and Racial 
 Politics: How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil 
 Rights America, and co-author, with Chris Myers Asch, of Chocolate City, A 
 History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital His latest project 
 is “Black Power in Washington, D.C.” a web-based map of Black Power 
 activism in the nation’s capital between 1961 and 1998. His work has 
 appeared in the Washington Post, National Public Radio, the New York Times 
 and The Root. He is currently working on a book project tentatively titled 
 “We must take to the streets again”: The Black Power Resurgence in 
 Conservative America, 1980-97, which explores the burst of black activism 
 that rose in opposition to the urban crisis and the conservative 
 retrenchment.\n__________________________________________________________\n\nH.R. 
 51: Making D.C. the 51st State\n\nMarch 22, 2021: YouTube recording of 
 Committee on House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on H.R. 51 
 Washington, D.C. Admission 
 Act\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjXYxNjvY9Y\n\n- - - - - - - 
 \n\nARTICLE: Democracy for DC 'On the Horizon'? Poll Shows Support for 
 Statehood \nat All-Time 
 High\n\nhttps://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/22/democracy-dc-horizon-poll-shows-support-statehood-all-time-high\n__________________________________________________________ 
 \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/22/18840993.php
SUMMARY:The 51st State: D.C. Statehood and America's Future Panel Discussion
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/22/18840993.php
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