Lawyers’ Committee, social justice institute from NJ to host panel at Selma Jubilee

The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law will host their "Our Selma Moment: Fighting and Building" panel on Saturday as part of the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee. 

"The event, occurring at the church where Bloody Sunday foot soldiers gathered before their historical march for voting rights across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the same date 61 years before, will consist of two powerful panels of racial justice leaders and prominent state attorneys general who will place our current moment in the context of that history," said a press release for the event. 

Panel speakers will be: 

Panel 1

• April Albright, Founder, Black Voters Matter
• Bryan Fair, Interim President & CEO, Southern Poverty Law Center
• Ryan Haygood, President & CEO, NJ Institute for Social Justice
• U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver, 10th District, NJ
• Moderator: Rev. Mark Thompson

Panel 2

• WA Attorney General Nick Brown
• MN Attorney General Keith Ellison
• NY Attorney General Letitia James
• IL Attorney General Kwame Raoul
• Moderator: Damon Hewitt, President & Executive Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

The panel will be held at Brown Chapel AME Church at 410 Martin Luther King Street from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.