<p>Jamelle Bouie, a <em>New York Times</em> columnist and former political analyst for CBS News, covers U.S. politics, public policy, race, and the state of American democracy.</p><p>Jamelle’s political instincts provide audiences with unique insight on the past, present, and future of our national politics, policy, and the state of race relations. As he did while writing for <em>Slate</em> and the <em>Daily Beast</em>, Jamelle shares eye-opening perspectives on issues concerning the issues at play in America today. </p><p>Jamelle Bouie appeared on CBS’s <em>Face the Nation</em>.<em style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </em>His writings have appeared in <em>The Atlantic</em>, <em>The Washington Post, TIME,</em> and <em>The New Yorker</em>. Jamelle uses his unique perspective to take audiences to the front lines of the nation’s most significant news events, from civil unrest to political partisanship. He has emerged as a leading voice on the national scene, being named to Forbes “30 Under 30 in Media” in 2015. </p><p>Jamelle stimulates provocative, much-needed thinking on critical national affairs issues. He helps audiences analyze current events through the lens of human history and in the age of social media. He deftly illustrates how the past reveals itself in the present, and how policy-makers, citizen activists and cultural influencers can seize the power of information to make a difference.</p><p>In 2021, Jamelle received the Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism. In 2022 he was inducted into the Society of American Historians and in 2024 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Science.</p>
Columnist for the <em>New York Times</em>; Former CBS News Political Analyst and Chief Political Correspondent for <em>Slate Magazine</em>
<ul><li><strong>The Crisis of American Democracy</strong></li><li>The United States faces a crisis of democracy. Tens of millions of Americans are disengaged from the political process. The political system itself is unresponsive to demands for fairness and economic security. And there is an organized movement working to unravel fundamental guarantees of dignity, equal rights and equal citizenship. This crisis is the product of decades of economic inequality and political dysfunction. It is also a product of structural flaws in our system, including a Constitution that it as much an obstacle to the construction of a more perfect union as it is a tool to achieve it. </li><li>In this timely keynote, Jamelle Bouie addresses the questions: What would it look like to resolve our crisis of democracy? Do we still have the ability to make our political world anew? And where in American history can we find the resources, and the inspiration, to make the change that would put our democracy on the path to a better future? Audience walk away with a sharper sense of civic agency, historical perspective, and realistic pathways for rebuilding a more inclusive and resilient democracy.</li><li><strong>The Civil Rights Movement Today: A Second Redemption?</strong></li><li>Fifty years ago, the civil rights movement won its biggest victory—the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Three years later, after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, it won a second major bill—the Fair Housing Act. From the perspective of then, the future looked bright for black Americans. And to an extent, it was. For the first time, America saw a large and vibrant black middle class. Black professionals rose through the ranks and black politicians won office. We elected a black president. But each step for progress brought a backlash, from limits on affirmative action policies to a slow eroding of key civil rights laws, culminating in the Supreme Court's decision in Shelby v. Holder, gutting a key section of the VRA. The last expansion of civil rights before the 1960s, Reconstruction, also saw a backlash, called Redemption. And the shape of that backlash is similar to the one we have now. Is the present period a second Redemption? And what does that mean for our future?</li></ul>