Legal experts and scholars participate in a panel discussion about the history of civil rights, beginning in 1619 with the establishment of the first legislative body created by the London Company (later called the House of Burgesses).

The experts put the passage of this important legislation into a broader context, including the recent debates about individual civil liberties.

Local television personality, Barbara Hamm-Lee from WHRO, a PBS affiliate, who has a regular radio program, Another View, is the moderator.

The legal experts include The Honorable John Charles Thomas, Retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia and Senior Partner with Hunton & Williams, John Pierre, Vice Chancellor and Professor of Law at Southern University Law Center, Amos Jones, Assistant Professor of Law at Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, Campbell University, and Eric Claville, Assistant Dean at Hampton University.