Among the headline events at this year’s NAACP National Convention was a conversation between rapper Meek Mill, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, historian and educator Henry Louis Gates Jr., and NAACP President and CEO Derek Johnson.
In the panel on Sunday moderated by Fox Sports journalist Joy Taylor, the four discussed racism, antisemitism, and combating hate in all its forms.
Racism, antisemitism, and white nationalism
The panelists discussed moments of Black and Jewish solidarity in American history, from the thousands of schools Jewish philanthropist Julius Rosenwald helped build for Black students in the South in the early 1900s to historically Black colleges and universities welcoming Jewish professors fleeing Nazi Germany.