Civics Lessons for a Stronger Democracy

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 18, 2017

L. Joy Williams, President of the Brooklyn National Association for the Advanced of Colored People (NAACP), creator and host of Sunday Civics podcast, explains the importance of civic action, and argues it falls to schools to teach students how to become active participants in democracy at an early age. 

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