The final event in NLIHC’s Summer of IDEAS event series will take place on Thursday, August 4, at 3 pm ET, when Melissa Harris-Perry of Wake Forest University moderates a panel discussion about author Andrea Elliott’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City. The panelists – including Andrea Elliott, advocate Chanel Sykes (who is featured in the book), and James Perry (president and CEO of the Winston-Salem Urban League) – will discuss systemic racism, poverty, homelessness, housing insecurity, and other themes from Invisible Child. Register here.
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