India
oi-Oneindia Staff
Chennai, Feb 25: On Thursday, the U.S. Consulate General in Chennai in coordination with the U.S. Consulates in Mumbai and Hyderabad, organised a virtual discussion on “U.S. Democracy and the Fault Lines of Racism: An Analysis of 2020 Events” with Sam Fulwood III, Senior Fellow and Interim Vice President for Race and Ethnicity at the Center for American Progress in Washington D.C.
Over 500 representatives of community-based organisations, scholars, journalists, and students from universities across India attended the online event, joined by representatives from the Institute of Parliamentary Affairs, Kerala, the Neelam Foundation, Chennai, Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC), and the Dalit Intellectual Collective.
Speaking at the event, Sam Fulwood decoded dramatic developments in the United States in the year 2020 including the disproportionate impact…