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WATCH: 2019 Hutchins Forum ‘Divided We Stand: Can We Overcome?’

Join PBS NewsHour’s special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Henry Louis Gates Jr. (PBS’ “Finding Your Roots”) as they host and moderate the 2019 Hutchins Forum “Divided We Stand: Can We Overcome?”

The forum is produced by the Harvard University Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.

Join us here for a live stream of the event at 5 p.m. EDT on Thursday.

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