America's Future: Melting Pot, Boiling Cauldron, or Spicy Gumbo?

America's Future: Melting Pot, Boiling Cauldron, or Spicy Gumbo?

Civil Rights Leaders, 'Crash' Producers, La Opinion Publisher at LCCR Roundtable

Media Advisory

WASHINGTON, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Rodney King's poignant plea after the Los Angeles riots a decade ago, "Can we get along here? Can we all get along?" still holds true in a nation roiled by race, ethnic, and class tensions and a polarizing immigration debate.

On Thursday, May 4th at 1:30 PM, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), the nation's premier civil rights and human rights coalition, will host a roundtable with the Academy Award winning producers of "Crash" -- which dramatically captured racial and ethnic tensions -- and Monica Lozano, the pioneering publisher of La Opinion, the nation's leading Hispanic newspaper -- to explore where, and if, there is common ground. The roundtable will happen just hours before Lozano and "Crash" receive the civil rights community's highest honor, the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award.

WHAT: Roundtable with Civil Rights Giants, "Crash" Publishers & Ethnic
Media Publishers

WHEN: Thursday, May 4th
1:30 - 3:00 PM

WHERE: National Press Club // Holeman Lounge

WHO: Congressman John Lewis (D-GA); "Crash" Director and Screenwriter
Paul Haggis; "Crash" Producer Cathy Schulman; Publisher of La
Opinion and Chair of the National Council of La Raza Monica
Lozano; Dean of Wayne State University Law School and author of
"Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White" Frank Wu;
Editor-in-Chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association
News Service and BlackPressUSA.com George Curry; "Crash" cast
members expected subject to availability.

The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) is the nation's oldest, largest, and most diverse civil and human rights coalition. For more information on LCCR visit http://www.civilrights.org/

Source: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

CONTACT: Ed Rothschild, +1-202-879-9317, for Leadership Conference on
Civil Rights; or Mistique Cano of Leadership Conference on Civil Rights,
+1-202-263-2882

Web site: http://www.civilrights.org/

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