Watch: Dwayne David Paul and Michael Vazquez offer advice to Biden for combating racial inequity, LGBTQ discrimination

Clockwise from upper left: NCR opinion editor Olga Segura, Dwayne David Paul of the Collaborative Center for Justice and Michael Vazquez of the Human Rights Campaign participate in a livestream event on Jan. 28. (NCR screenshot/YouTube)

Clockwise from upper left: NCR opinion editor Olga Segura, Dwayne David Paul of the Collaborative Center for Justice, and Michael Vazquez of the Human Rights Campaign, participate in a livestream event on Jan. 28. (NCR screenshot/YouTube)

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In this livestream, NCR's Olga Segura hosts a conversation with Dwayne David Paul of the Collaborative Center for Justice, and Michael Vazquez of the Human Rights Campaign, about the advice they'd offer to President Joe Biden.

Background reading:

  • The community policing model, recycled by politicians like Biden for decades, promotes a dangerous vision of community that further marginalizes already vulnerable and overpoliced communities, Paul wrote in our Building a Common Future series.
  • Vazquez co-wrote his commentary with Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign: "The majority of U.S. Catholics, including President-elect Joe Biden, understands that supporting pro-LGBTQ policies is in direct alignment with Catholic teaching on he common good."
  • Click here to read the entire series, in which Catholic politicians, activists and scholars to offer advice to Biden in a series that takes its title from Pope Francis' encyclical, Fratelli Tutti: "Building a Common Future."

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This story appears in the Building a Common Future feature series. View the full series.

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