Agnew, Carroll among headliners for State of the Student Summit

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Phillip Agnew and Jennifer Carroll don’t have much in common when it comes to political views. But today, they’ll share the stage at an event that’s all about airing different opinions.

Agnew, executive director of the Dream Defenders and Carroll, former lieutenant governor of Florida, will be come to the Al Lawson Jr. Multipurpose Center to take part in the State of the Student Summit. The four-hour panel discussion, moderated by news analyst Roland Martin, will focus on “Race, Religion and The Reality of Tomorrow.”

Neither Agnew nor Carroll is a stranger to The Hill. Agnew served as FAMU student body president during the 2006-2007 school year. FAMU honored Carroll’s history-making electoral victory with a campus gala in 2011 and then welcomed her back in 2012 when she delivered the keynote address for the FAMU Black History Convocation.  Sparks flew at the later event when Ciara Taylor, now a member of the Dream Defenders, interrupted Carroll’s address with a one-woman protest.

Agnew remains at odds with Carroll’s former boss, Gov. Rick Scott. The Dream Defenders initiated a 31-day sit-in in Scott’s office to protest his support of the Stand Your Ground law that helped lead to the acquittal a George Zimmerman, the man who killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin. Last month, the Dream Defenders marched to the Florida Governor’s Mansion to serve Scott with an eviction notice. They plan to register 65,000 new voters, which represents the margin of victory that Scott carried in 2010. Scott is running for reelection in 2014.

Agnew and Carroll will be joined by attorney Benjamin Crump, who represents the Martin family; Wil Haygood, journalist and author of “The Butler;” Rev. Nolan Williams, Jr., musical curator of the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; Dorothy Inman-Johnson, author of “Poverty, Politics and Race…The View from Down Here;” and Keneshia Grant, former FAMU student body vice-president and Syracuse University doctoral candidate.
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