Chapter Twenty-Six - On The Brink: Of Revolution, Again

Just as in the 1970s when students on campuses nationwide began sitting-in, dropping out, occupying campus buildings, and marching against war in Vietnam, young people are now protesting US involvement in the war in Gaza. Also just as 50 years ago the nation is divided over the university unrest, many sympathizing with the students, many also decrying violence and lack of control by university officials. Host Rosemary Armao talks with a Palestinian student who helped organize the Washington student encampment, and journalists/activists involved in the Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, and Vietnam peace movements about whether the First Amendment right to publicly contest the actions of our government is endangered. Law enforcement and government officials don’t like demonstrations and want control over them. Does protesting, really, however, even make a difference?
Now a professional face and body artist, Corey Morgan was a long-time government employee always vocal about social injustice and especially racial inequality. The nephew of Dovey Roundtree (Google her) a WW2 veteran and Civil Rights lawyer who worked with Thurgood Marshall, Mary Bethune, and Martin Luther King. Morgan has done his best to be a voice for people whose experiences and struggles have gone unheard or unacknowledged. Not just behind a keyboard, he notes, but physically out in the street as well.
TaNoah Morgan is a serial entrepreneur, serving as chief creative officer of Morganics Handcrafted, an online awards and customization enterprise, and MS Insurance, which focuses on helping families create financial foundations and retire wealthy.
She spent some 20 years in the news industry as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun and then running her own publication, The Vine newspapers.
A native Marylander, Morgan has worked with creative types from all walks of life, helping them to express their talents and bring their vision to reality - whether through publications, interviews, media, and business consulting, or through customized gifts and awards. She is a public speaker, writer, editor, a visual designer and master of communication'
The Morgans have been married for nearly 30 years and have two beautiful and talented young adult daughters who also strive to impact the world creatively.
Besan Jaber is a scholar and activist from Ammon, Jordan currently pursuing a master in Arab Studies at Georgetown University. Over the past decade she has held research and leadership roles in a range of fields including development, civil society, journalism and education. She worked and consulted for Al Jazeera, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, Mercy Corps, and the International Rescue Committee. Her work has consistently focused on women's rights, and human rights issues within the Middle East and North Africa.