The American Bar Association will conduct a free webinar, “COVID 19: Threats to Democracy and to Public Safety Through the Lens of the Asian American Experience,” on Monday, April 13, from 12-1:30 p.m. EDT.

The webinar is sponsored by Stop Repeating History, a project of the MTYKL Foundation and ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice, which is offering a series of free webinars exploring how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting critical legal issues of criminal justice, civil rights, human rights, and economic concerns, among others.

Topics in this program include:

• Discussion about an uptick in discriminatory, racist and xenophobic attacks against Asian Americans

• An examination of the nation’s history of racial scapegoating

• The consequences when alternative facts are substituted for evidence and scientifically supported data

• The role of the media during a pandemic

• How to stand together to simultaneously defeat COVID-19 and preserve democracy                                        

 Speakers include:

• Welcome remarks by ABA President Judy Perry Martinez, who is also of counsel with Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn in New Orleans, Louisiana.

• Donald Tamaki, managing partner, Minami Tamaki LLP

• Matt Stevens, political reporter, The New York Times

• Helen Zia, author, “Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People”

• Karen K. Narasaki, former commissioner, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (moderator)

Watch the webinar here