Digital Transatlantic Dialogue

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 Headlines: Protests and Police Violence Latest Book by Marcia Chatelain (Young Leader '15) Books, Town Hall & Tools to Talk About Race With Your Kids Young Leader-led Webinar Previous webinars

# BlackLivesMatter

Bryan Stevenson on the Frustration Behind the George Floyd Protests , The New Yorker "The past weekend saw the start of an uprising in dozens of American cities, with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets for peaceful protests and violent encounters with the police. The proximate cause was the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed, handcuffed African-American man, by a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin. (...)" Brands Have Nothing Real to Say About Racism , The Atlantic " As Americans protested police brutality and the killing of George Floyd over the past week, they were met with tear gas and law-enforcement batons. The whole ghastly spectacle—eyesight lost to rubber bullets, people beaten and sometimes killed in the streets, journalists arrested on television—was broadcast live on platforms like Twitter and Instagram. (...)" New York police take seconds to restore reputation for brutality , The Guardian " It doesn’t take long to blow up a reputation. In the case of the New York police department, an institution with an already troubled history, the clip lasted all of 27 seconds. (...)" La mort de George Floyd a donné un nouvel élan à la lutte contre les violences policières en France , Le Monde "Assa Traoré parle d’un rassemblement « inédit », d’une marche « historique ». Pour la porte-parole du comité La vérité pour Adama, du prénom de son petit frère, mort à 24 ans sur le sol de la caserne de Persan (Val-d’Oise), à la suite d’une interpellation, en juillet 2016, la date du 2 juin 2020 marque un tournant dans la lutte qu’elle mène depuis quatre ans contre les violences policières. (...)"

Latest Book by Marcia Chatelain (Young Leader '15)

For those who followed our webinar yesterday (Thursday, June 4) with Dr. Marcia Chatelain on Civil Rights, Capitalism, and America's Past 50 Years , you can find her new book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America here . "I’m always interested in finding new ways to talk about the complexity of race and capitalism. I focus on fast food because it’s ubiquitous in the United States, but its importance to civil rights history is hiding in plain sight. (...) " - Marcia Chatelain, FAF Interview, Janurary 2020

Books, Town Hall & Tools to Talk About Race With Your Kids

Because we believe that education about race starts early, we have compiled a list of a few books for kids. The ABCs of Diversity: Helping Kids (and Ourselves!) Embrace Our Differences, by Carolyn B. Helsel, Y. Joy Harris-Smith Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice, by Marianne Celano, PhD, ABPP, Marietta Collins, PhD, and Ann Hazzard, PhD, ABPP Little Legends, by Vashti Harrison Little Leaders, by Vashti Harrison What If We Were All The Same!, by C M Harris Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation, by Duncan Tonatiuh Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, by Carole Boston Weatherford In addition, click here for resources by the National Museum of African American History & Culture to talk about race with your family. Don't miss Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism this coming Saturday, June 6 at 10:00AM ET on CNN, CNN International, and CNN en Español. CNN and Sesame Street join for a new Town Hall to help kids and families discuss racism and the protests taking place nationwide, build empathy, and embrace diversity.

Young Leader-led Webinar

We’re pleased to invite you to join us for our fourth Young Leader-led webinar in partnership with our sister organization, the  French-American Foundation - France. The event is free and open to the public. You do not need a Zoom account to join!   Young Leaders Perspectives Fashion Industry: Adapting to Crisis with Leslie Serrero General Manager of Fendi for France and Monaco & Siddhartha Shukla Chief Brand Officer at Theory & a member of the Board of Directors of the French-American Foundation. Topic: Fashion Date & Time: Thursday, June 11 at 12:30 pm ET RSVP: Click HERE to sign up. Registered guests will receive a link to join in the days leading up to the event.

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. How Coronavirus Will Change Geopolitics Coronavirus: The Infodemic? Book Reading: A Hundred Suns Book Talk: The Cactus League Creative Insights With Marc Levy Crisis Management During COVID-19 Economic Impacts of COVID-19 Virtual Cooking Class With Melissa Clark Racing to a Vaccine Unrest: Civil Rights, Capitalism, and America’s Past 50 Years

Covid-19 Sources

Breaking News The New York Times Le Monde NPR Los Angeles Times Vox RTL BBC Statistics Johns Hopkins The COVID Tracking Project New England Journal of Medicine CDC Ministère des Solidarités et de la Santé

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