| Don’t miss it: Lincoln Bicentennial town hall is Dec. 9 |
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Part of a nationwide bicentennial celebration, the theme for Atlanta’s town hall is "Unfinished Work: Race, Civility and Equality of Opportunity." It will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 9 at the Cecil B. Day Chapel at The Carter Center. The program begins with a reception at 5 p.m. Though this event is free and open to the public, space is limited and reservations are encouraged. The Atlanta town hall is hosted by the Georgia Humanities Council along with more than 20 Atlanta-area nonprofits, including The Civic League. Keynote speaker for the event is Dr. Stephen L. Carter, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University and best-selling author of Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy and The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion, and most recently the novel Jericho’s Fall. For more information, please visit www.abrahamlincoln200.org.
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This year marks the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, and in observation of the great president’s life and legacy, Civic League members are invited to participate in a regional town hall meeting on something that has shaped nearly every aspect of the Atlanta region: race.
