Public Affairs Luncheon with Juan Williams

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On December 6, 2018, Juan Williams, the political analyst for Fox News, bestselling author, and civil rights expert addressed the Trump administration’s sweeping rollback of the civil rights movement at the City Bar’s Public Affairs Luncheon. Donald Trump’s campaign pitch to African Americans was: “What the hell do you have to lose?” According to Juan, the answer is: Quite a lot, as it turns out. He believes that the Trump administration’s policies and intentions pose a threat to civil rights without precedent in modern America. Based on his observations of the current state of politics and race relations with insights from the long, and sometimes forgotten, history of the civil rights movement, as Juan asserts in his new book, knowing our past is essential if we are to understand our present, and shape our future.

Speaker:
Juan Williams has covered and written about American politics for four decades.  He is currently a columnist for The Hill, and was a longtime writer and correspondent for The Washington Post and NPR.  Juan is currently a cohost of Fox News Channel’s roundtable debate show The Five, and makes regular appearances across the network, where he regularly challenges the orthodoxy of the network’s conservative stalwarts.  He is also the author of numerous books, including Eyes on the Prize, Thurgood Marshall, Enough, Muzzled, and We The People.

Sponsoring Association Committee:
Senior Lawyers Committee, Barry M. Bloom, Chair
Public Affairs Luncheon, Frank Wagner, Chair