Continuing the Conversation for Healing and Unity | (Part 2) Taking a stand against injustice and creating real change

“Let’s create not only some healing here but some real change. …
Change is automatic, but progress is not. And so this is a
conversation today to see if we can create some progress. … What
this is really about is getting to what we can do to tap into
unity, and love, and compassion, and connection to one another.
What can we do to move forward?” – Tony Robbins


 


It’s been over three months since the death of George Floyd, the
unarmed, 46-year-old black man, who was unconscionably killed by
police in broad daylight during an arrest in Minneapolis.
Captured on cell-phone video and amplified in the media, the
whole world witnessed his horrific death, and it has reignited a
centuries-long conversation around race supremacy in the United
States and the injustice that African Americans can face.


The aftermath of George Floyd’s death — and combined stacking of
others like Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, Eric
Garner, and most recently the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha,
Wis.  — has brought this nation to a threshold. With
thousands of people around the world in grief, humanity is
speaking loud and clear: enough is enough, the time is now to
create real change rooted in our nation’s foundation of ‘justice
for all.’ Beyond change, we need progress. As Tony said in the
first episode of this special two-part podcast series, change is
automatic – but progress is not.


The conversation continues. In this 2-hour
episode, Tony hosts a panel of five unique, multi-generational
leaders who share their experience of what it is to be Black in
America and lend their voice to what we, as a unified society,
need to listen to and hear, to unite, to make progress, and
ultimately to tap into love, compassion, and our deep connection
to one another.


“If love is not yet won, the battle is not yet
over.”


– Martin Luther King III


Part 2 Guests:   


Charlamagne tha God (Radio show host, author, influencer)


Rev. Jesse Jackson (Civil rights activist, former aide to Martin
Luther King, Jr.)


Barbara Becnel (Journalist, film producer, prison reform
advocate)


Van Jones (Author, television host)


Derrick Johnson (President and CEO of the NAACP)