welcome back to worlds apart with our no one to warn president of the european dollar how days mr wanda want to before the break i mentioned the the former dutch harsh reality who made an opposite transition to yours from a practicing muslim to an atheist and a critical though not a hater of islam do you respect da journey of course of course again a muslim is a tolerant islam is a tolerant a religion of course it's a sarah thing if someone is leaving islam or choosing a vote they are free to do that we are living in a free country and democracy. and also from the so shall try to do something you know try to convince people by talking with them and about the again this is not in our hands it's in the hands of. now islam has long had a somewhat complicated relationship with the freedom of speech and expression as they're defined in the west and i know that in that the lens and particularly this debate became far more polarized after a series of murders of people who were critical of islam particularly filmmaker theo van gogh fifteen years later do you think the dutch society has been abl

wendy edmundses and wanda wallace are in the gallery, mr. chairman. sister of sylvia frazier, a navy yard shooting victim. montana geimer, daughter ever wendy winters, a writer for the capital gazette, which my colleague, mr. brown, just spoke, and mackenzie, a high school student that organized march for our lives rally in anne arundel county. they are here with us today. not to have a moment of silence but to have a moment of action. many of our districts have been painfully affected by gun violence. in saint mary's county, maryland, a student was killed by a shooter at great mills high school and courageous school resource officer there saved countless other lives. in annapolis, five staff of the capital gazette were gunned down in their newsroom. for years the american people have demanded action to address gun violence. after the parkland shooting, just over a year ago, students marched in cities from coast-to-coast to demand that congress protect them in the classroom. in the streets, in houses of worship, and in all public gathering places. i,

issues of law and wanda, in ghana, or england, wales, south africa and before the united nations in huwanda.- and ruw she is an author of several books. [applause] in finally, we have mr. kojo nnamdi. now.ight, yuou come on, we will not be stingy with remembernamdi who i from my time at howard, how much information and community dialogue he had fostered over the years. in the hopes -- in the kojo nnamdi show, on wamu, 88.5. he is an data from guyana who emigrated to the united states to attend college and explore the civil rights movement. he hosted evening exchange, public affairs television program broadcast by howard university. he worked ato 1985, whur where he served as news director producing local news, award-winning local news programs. we can go on and on. in 2005, he was named washingtonian of the year by washingtonian magazine.a and so, i'm very happy to have all of us here to talk about the theme of black migration. and i'm just going to start with a very straightforward question, which is, in what ways is migration central to the black experience? right. before we get started, right? you can't hang me out to dry like this. >> that was our plan. would agre

wendy edmundses and wanda wallace are in the gallery, mr. chairman. sister of sylvia frazier, a navy yard shooting victim. montana geimer, daughter ever wendy winters, a writer for the capital gazette, which my colleague, mr. brown, just spoke, and mackenzie, a high school student that organized march for our lives rally in anne arundel county. they are here with us today. not to have a moment of silence but to have a moment of action. many of our districts have been painfully affected by gun violence. in saint mary's county, maryland, a student was killed by a shooter at great mills high school and courageous school resource officer there saved countless other lives. in annapolis, five staff of the capital gazette were gunned down in their newsroom. for years the american people have demanded action to address gun violence. after the parkland shooting, just over a year ago, students marched in cities from coast-to-coast to demand that congress protect them in the classroom. in the streets, in houses of worship, and in all public gathering places. i,