It sounds like the first line of a bad joke, but it was the start of an insightful conversation Sunday in Charlottesville, Va., which is still grappling with the fallout of August’s white supremacist, pro-Confederacy protests. Into a former church-turned-homeless shelter came Donna Brazile, the first African-American woman to chair the Democratic National Committee, and Michael Steele, the first and only African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee. As moderator, I knew going in I’d be in the midst of legends: As Al Gore’s campaign manager, Ms. Brazile was the first woman to run a presidential campaign.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/journey-toward-healing-charlottesville-202925233.html

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