Excerpts from a panel on Race, Civility and the First Amendment from the Martin Luther King Remembrance Celebration is on "The West Side."
Participants in the panel include Josh Kaul, Wisconsin’s Attorney General; Eric Kasper, Director of Constitutional Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; Timothy Shiell, University of Wisconsin-Stout philosophy professor and author of the book “African Americans and the First Amendment;” and Lynette McNeely, chair of legal redress of the NAACP in Wisconsin. The moderator of the panel was Le’Trice Donaldson, assistant professor of history at UW-Stout. Teresa O’Halloran, interim Vice-Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Student Affairs at UW-Eau Claire, shared questions from the live audience during the panel presentation.
The panel was part of a day-long program held during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday sponsored by the Pablo Center at the Confluence, Uniting Bridges, Converge Radio, UWEC, UW-Stout, Chippewa Valley Technical Colleges, and the cities of Eau Claire and Altoona. A recording of the entire daylong program can be found on the event's Facebook page.