On the Hill and at the White House you will hear more about Palestine, Syria, and other foreign policy priorities. You will also hear from the Department of Justice an update on the revised December 2014 DOJ Guidance for Federal Law Enforcement Agencies on the Use of Race, Ethnicity, National Origin, Religion and other factors. Even with the December revisions, we believe they failed to significantly improve the discriminatory practice of profiling. We continue to press the Obama adminstration to do more and ask that you to help us in April.
As a special component of our annual leadership days, we’re excited to announce that we will host a private advance screening on April 30 forKahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, followed by a discussion with Salma Hayek Pinault. Inspired by the classic book by Kahlil Gibran, the film portrays the story of an unlikely friendship between a young girl and an imprisoned poet. The film presents the 26 poems from Gibran’s work in a collection of eight animated “chapters” by animation directors from around the world.  Adapted for the screen by Roger Allers (The Lion King);and produced by 2015 Spirit of Humanity Awardee Salma Hayek Pinault, the film premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival last spring. Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet was recently picked up by GKids, the distributor of six Academy Award nominated animated films, and will be released to North American audiences this summer but you can watch it with Salma before then. However, seating is limited for this special screening, please reserve your spot today by registering for Leadership day.