BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations DESCRIPTION:Constitution Day Lecture: Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries\; "Why the Constitution Won't Save Us from Ourselves."\n\nTue\, Sep 17\, 2024 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM\n\nDr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries (The Ohio State University) will deli ver the annual Constitution Day Lecture entitled\, "Why the Constitution Wo n't Save Us from Ourselves." American democracy is straining under intense internal pressure generated by those who reject traditional political norms and place little to no value on multi-racial democracy. Some say that ther e is nothing to worry about because the Constitution will safeguard our dem ocracy. But history suggests otherwise. This lecture will explore why the C onstitution is not enough to save American democracy from the threat within .\n\n \n\nDr. Jeffries is the College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University. A native of Brooklyn\, New York\, with degrees from Morehouse College and Duke University\, he tea ches courses on the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement. He is author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt\, and has worked on several major public history projects\, including the renovat ion of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis\, Tennessee\, where Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. was assassinated. Dr. Jeffri es also serves on the Board of Directors for the ACLU of Ohio. DTEND:20240918T000000Z DTSTAMP:20240920T054459Z DTSTART:20240917T230000Z GEO:39.328395;-82.100838 LOCATION:Athena Cinema SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Constitution Day Lecture: Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_46375424909337 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/constitution-day-lecture-dr-hasan-kwame -jeffries END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR