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Watch Now : Live townhall meeting on race and acts of violence #WhatNow

MTV, BET, and other Viacom Networks have cancelled their regular schedule programs to air a live townhall meeting to discuss the recent events in the news.

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July 8, 2016

Unheard Voices Staff

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MTV, BET, and other Viacom Networks have cancelled their regular schedule programs to air a live townhall meeting called Whatnow to discuss the recent events in the news.

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Whatnow Townhall meeting hosts

Leading the discussion will be MTV’s Charlamagne, Jamil Smith and Franchesca Ramsey, BET’s Marc Lamont Hill and Larry Wilmore from Comedy Central’s Nightly Show.

Open forum

The program is an open forum of artists, activists and audience members discussing the issues underlying this latest round in a cycle of violence and tragedy in America.

You can use the hashtag #whatnow or call in.

Watch the townhall meeting live

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Unheard Voices Staff

Unheard Voices is an award-winning news magazine that started in 2004 as a newsletter in the Asbury Park, Neptune, and Long Branch, NJ areas to broadening into a recognized Black online media outlet. The company is one of the few outlets dedicated to covering social justice issues. They are the recipient of the NAACP Unsung Hero Award and CV Magazine's Innovator Award for Best Social Justice Communications Company.