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The Roots of a Champion April 2, 2016

Opening program

Collegiate Upper School Jazz Band

National Anthem

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Opening remarks Bill Chapman Executive Director The Richmond Forum

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Discussion

Russell Wilson & Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Fifteen-minute intermission for collection of audience questions Remarks

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Audience questions

Mr. Wilson & Dr. Gates with Mr. Chapman

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Closing remarks

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Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Russell Carrington Wilson is the second of three children born into a high-achieving and athletic family. His grandfather, a former president of Norfolk State University, was a two-sport star at Kentucky State, and his father, Harrison Wilson III, was a standout football and baseball player for Dartmouth. Harrison was drafted into the NFL but chose to pursue a law career, graduating from the University of Virginia where he was president of his law class. Russell’s mother, Tammy, is a legal nurse consultant, and his sister, Anna, will be attending Stanford next year on a basketball scholarship.

In 2004, Russell Wilson earned the starting quarterback job at Collegiate School in Richmond, where he lead the Cougars to a record three consecutive state championships, while also starting on the school’s baseball and basketball teams. In 2007, he was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles to play baseball, but decided to accept a football scholarship to NC State.

As a red-shirt junior for the Wolfpack, Wilson led the ACC in passing yards and total offense. He graduated from NC State in three

years with a B.A. in Communication and, having one year of NCAA eligibility remaining, opted to transfer to the University of Wisconsin for graduate studies and his final year of play.

Wilson broke numerous passing records during his 2011 season at Wisconsin and led the Badgers to the Big Ten Championship game.

During his college summers, Wilson also played professional baseball for minor league teams in the Colorado Rockies organization.

Although relatively small for an NFL quarterback, he was selected by the Seattle Seahawks with the 75th pick in the 2012 draft and immediately became their starter.

After shattering NFL rookie records for completions and passer ratings,Wilson was named Rookie of the Year in 2013. The following year, he led the Seahawks to their first Super Bowl victory, defeating the Denver Broncos. He took the team to a second consecutive Super Bowl in 2015, where they lost to the New England Patriots on the final play of the game. In 2016, Wilson was named the Pro Bowl Offensive MVP. By consistently inspiring his teammates to heroic comebacks through gritty resolve and leadership, Wilson is universally considered one of the NFL’s most gifted and inspirational players.

A devout Christian, Wilson is heavily involved in charitable activities for the Seattle Children’s Hospital. In the off-season, he hosts the Russell Wilson Passing Academy. Held in several cities, these youth football camps teach the skills of the game while encouraging kids to develop high character and moral standards, a sense of competitiveness and fair play, respect for authority, service to others, and love of God, family, and country. Wilson also founded the Why Not You Foundation to “empower change in the world.”

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Returning to The Richmond Forum tonight is Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

An Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Gates has authored 17 books and produced 14 documentary films. As host of the popular PBS show Finding Your Roots, now in its third season, Gates is one of the United States’ most influential cultural critics and is both an eloquent commentator and formidable intellectual force on multicultural and African American issues.

Dr. Gates is editor in chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center, the first comprehensive scholarly online resource in the field of African American and Africana Studies.

In 2013, his six-part PBS documentary series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, which he wrote, executive-produced, and hosted, earned the Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program – Long Form, as well as a Peabody Award and the NAACP Image Award.

Having written for such leading publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and TIME, Gates now serves as editor in chief of TheRoot.com, a daily online magazine. In 2012, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader, a collection of his writings, was published. Professor Gates’ latest book is Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion to the PBS Series.

In 2006, Dr. Gates wrote and produced the PBS documentary African American Lives, the first documentary series to employ genealogy and science to provide an understanding of African American history. Gates also wrote and produced the documentaries Wonders of the African World

and America Beyond the Color Line for PBS and the BBC; he authored the companion books for both series.

He has received 54 honorary degrees from institutions including the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Howard University. He was a member of the first class awarded “genius grants” by the MacArthur Foundation in 1981, and in 1998, he became the first African American scholar to be awarded the National Humanities Medal.

Gates, known to his friends as “Skip,” was born in 1950 in Keyser, West Virginia. He graduated with a degree in history from Yale University and earned his Ph.D. in English Literature from Cambridge University.

In 2006, Dr. Gates was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution after he traced his lineage back to John Redman, a free Negro who fought in the Revolutionary War. Dr. Gates is widely acknowledged for advancing African American studies onto a scholarly plane that is equivalent with all other academic disciplines.

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High School • Named All-District, All-Region and All-State (2005, 2006), named Conference Player of the Year (2006) • Twice named Richmond Times-Dispatch Player of the Year (2005, 2006) • Featured in Sports Illustrated for his performance in Collegiate’s 2006 state championship win • Senior class president • Member of the Collegiate basketball and baseball teams College • First freshman named Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) FirstTeam All-ACC quarterback (2008) • Broke NCAA record of 325 consecutive pass attempts without an interception (2009) • Led the ACC in passing yards per game and total offensive yards per game (2010) • Named to the First-Team All-Big Ten (2011) • Awarded Quarterback of the Year in the Big Ten (2011) • Finished ninth in voting for the Heisman Trophy (2011) National Football League (NFL) • Drafted by Seattle Seahawks (2012) • NFL Rookie of the Year (2012) • Set an NFL rookie record against the Miami Dolphins with 16 consecutive completions (2012) • Tied record for most touchdown (TD) passes by a rookie quarterback (26); became the first rookie in NFL history to lead his team to an undefeated home record (2012) • Set a Seahawk record with a 100.0 passer rating, the second-best ever by a rookie (2012)

• Won 42 games, the most combined wins in any NFL quarterback’s first three seasons (2012–2014) • Two-time NFL National Football Conference Champion starting quarterback (2013, 2014) • Became the third youngest quarterback in NFL history to win the Super Bowl, leading the Seahawks to a 43-8 win over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII (2013) • Led the Seahawks to a secondstraight Super Bowl appearance (2014) • The first quarterback to start two Super Bowls in his first three seasons (2013, 2014) • First NFL player to throw for 4,000 yards and 30 touchdowns, and run for 500 yards (2015) • Only NFL quarterback to throw three or more touchdowns with no interceptions in five consecutive games (2015) • First player in NFL history to record three rushing TDs and pass for a TD in the first half of a game (2016) • Named NFL Pro Bowl quarterback four times (2012, 2013, 2015, 2016) • Named NFL Pro Bowl Offensive Most Valuable Player (2016) Major League Baseball • Drafted by Colorado Rockies (2010) • Played 32 games as second baseman for Class A, Tri-City Dust Devils of Pasco, WA (2010) • Played 61 games with the Class A, Asheville Tourists of Asheville, NC (2011) • Acquired by the Texas Rangers organization (2013) • Attended Rangers spring training (2014, 2015)

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Only painstaking genealogical and genetic research could reveal that liberal comedian and television host Bill Maher and right-wing conservative firebrand Bill O’Reilly are actually related through common ancestors in the O’Neill dynasty of Ireland. Which means they are both related to tonight’s Forum guest, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., who also has an ancestor in that family tree, which dates back to the fifth century.

Discoveries like this have made Gates’ television series, Finding Your Roots, one of the most popular series in PBS history.

Now in its third season, the program uses both traditional paper trail research and the latest in DNA testing and analysis to reveal the family histories of well-known people who shape our contemporary national identity. Using a team of genealogists to decode chromosomal relationships, and experienced researchers to sift through published and unpublished records left behind by ancestors, Gates constructs what is often a surprising and emotional ancestral narrative of each guest on the program.

Guests on the program receive a Book of Life containing all the information discovered about their ancestors: an extensive family tree, copies of historical records used to assemble the tree, photos of newly-found family members, and a DNA profile that reaches back even further to reveal geographic regions of ancestral origin.

In addition to well-known personalities,

everyday people are sometimes featured on the program in a parallel story line. In one episode Dr. Gates had his friends at a local barbershop take a DNA test to determine their ethnic and racial makeup, with each friend betting on their own percentage of African, European, and Native American heritage.

However, it is witnessing the genuine and powerful impact of the discovery of a previously unknown ancestral story that makes the program so compelling. In this season’s third episode, comedian and actress Maya Rudolph was reduced to tears as she read the nameless entries in a Kentucky plantation ledger representing members of her family in the mid-1800s, including a five-year-old boy. In season two, Gates and Finding Your Roots came under fire when it was revealed that the series had acquiesced to actor Ben Affleck’s request that his slaveholding past be omitted from the program, highlighting the complex mix of conflicts and inspirations that our family legacies can present.

According to Dr. Gates, the greatest contribution of the series is exploring how different racial, religious, and ethnic backgrounds challenge many of our long-held national myths. “When you strip away all physical appearances,” he says, “we are primally and fundamentally related at the genetic level.

We’re also related through a commonality of human experience. Our dreams, trials, moments of defeat and transcendence. We’re all members of the human community no matter what our physical differences.”

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Researching African American An Researchers have long lamented the lack of primary sources for information about the history and ancestry of African Americans.

Documents about people and families, enslaved or free, either do not exist or have been all but inaccessible.

Virginia is the home, however, of two important online initiatives that are collecting and organizing such records into searchable digital databases that, for the first time, give researchers and genealogists modern tools to piece together the complex puzzle of African American heritage.

The Unknown No Longer project of the Virginia Historical Unknown No Longer - http://unknownnolonger.vahistorical.org Society has researched more than eight million of the Society’s unpublished least part of their lives in Virginia, provides documents, dating back to the 17th century, to unprecedented links to family ancestries hidden gather names and information about Virginians for generations in these documents.

At the Library of Virginia, the first of African American descent. Unknown No phase of Virginia Untold: The African American Longer was launched in 2011 through a grant from Dominion Resources. The project’s goal Narrative was recently announced. This new is to study private historical records in hopes of and searchable collection of digital records finding any biographical detail about enslaved illuminates the pre-Civil War experiences Virginians named in the records. In some cases, of African Americans; the information is only a name on a bill of sale may survive. But documented in the Library’s vast primary some documents may provide details of family source materials. Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has relationships, occupations, dates of birth and referred to the Civil War as “a roadblock for death, names of owners, and properties on many when researching their African American heritage,” as many important details of their which enslaved Virginians toiled.

The Historical Society is finding names lives were never documented. Laws forbade in wills, correspondence, inventories, family many slaves to learn to read and write, so they Bibles, and memoirs, among other paperwork. were unable to leave the written materials that The project’s free and public website includes so many families take for granted.

The project, also funded by a Dominion high-resolution scans of each page. The database, which contains more than 13,000 Resources grant, began in 2013. It has indexed names of African Americans who lived at more than 100,000 African American names

and created nearly 40,000 digital images that are on the Library of Virginia website. The images include freedom law suits, coroners’ inquisitions, certificates of importation, deeds of emancipation, cohabitation registers, tax lists, and more. Such varied record types often come together to paint historical portraits of individual men and women, including their migrations from one locality to another—freed slaves received a freedom certificate that they registered with locality officials.

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Good Things Come So, For Our April 2017 Prog We’ll be announcing four amazing programs tonight. And the fifth much later.

Every fall, we ask whom you would like to see speak at The Richmond Forum in the following season, and you always respond with some really incredible people. Unfortunately, some of those people we are simply not able to present due to our booking schedule.

Our standard practice is to line up our speakers 12 to 18 months in advance of their program dates so that we can unveil our full season lineup to you in March or April—nearly eight months before the season begins.

That model makes things neat and tidy for us and our subscribers, but doesn’t work for every speaker, including some of the biggest names that you ask us to bring to The Forum.

There are many “A-list” names that simply can’t commit to an event over a year away—mostly those with quite busy “day jobs.” If we were to invite them much closer to our program date, however, we would have a real chance; they’ve told us this over and over.

That’s why this January, The Richmond Forum board of directors approved a recommendation from our executive director to hold open our April 2017 program date to be booked and announced later, and to hold back a large share of our speaker budget with the intent of booking a bigname speaker on that date.

At this time, we don’t know whom that speaker will be, but we are excited by the potential names that this change in approach could bring to our stage.

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Online Subscription Renewal: Les 2016–2017 Season Renewals

Last year, nearly 80% of our subscribers renewed their season subscriptions via our website and nearly one-quarter renewed before receiving our renewal packet in the mail. Given that, it makes sense for us to dramatically reduce the amount of paper that we generate at renewal time.

Tonight, following our season announcement, we will send our usual renewal e-mail to the primary e-mail address for each subscriber. As in past years, this e-mail will include your customer number and a PIN that will allow you to renew your subscription securely online, request seat upgrades, and update your contact information.

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When will the April 22, 2017 speaker be announced? Our plan is to announce this speaker

at our March 2017 program. It could be earlier.

How can I renew if I don’t know all of the speakers? We hope that over the years The

Richmond Forum has earned your trust. We’ve made this decision to address a challenge in the way we book speakers so that we can bring you the best possible 2016-2017 season. If you’ve been with us for a few years, you will remember that our subscribers were asked to renew for the 20112012 season without knowing whom the January speaker would be. A few months later, we announced that speaker to be Robert Gates, who turned out to be our highest-rated speaker of the last eight seasons. This will be a similar situation, except the announcement will come much later.

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of your tickets in October, as usual. On the April ticket, the speaker will simply be indicated as “TBA.” Is this going to be a new practice every season? Probably not; we’re

not sure we could handle the suspense every season! If this proves to be a well-received strategy, we may employ it from time to time as a means of securing amazing speakers we could not otherwise bring to our stage.

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Because we know that it helps to have a physical reminder in your bills-to-pay stack, we will mail a greatly streamlined renewal announcement that will also contain the information that you need to log into the online renewal site.

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Julia Gillard, prime minister of Australia from 2010–2013, challenged the audience to define their sense of purpose by deciding what is most important to them.

“She is one of the best speakers to ever present at the Forum. The structure of her speech was perfect, the delivery was clear, concise, organized and humorous. She explained concepts well and presented challenging insights on leadership, but with a light touch. I think she drew the audience in and then took us to a deeper understanding of how we can all learn from one another— including our allies.”

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Ed Grier VCU School of Business

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Raymond J. Lepper Program Committee Chair Panamint Group

Otis S. Jones Vice Chair IBM James W. Dunn Treasurer Bon Secours Virginia Health System Philip H. Goodpasture Secretary Williams Mullen Carroll D. Swenson Investment Committee Chair Wells Fargo Whitney K. Forstner Education Committee Chair Momentum Resources

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Trinity Episcopal School advocates service to one’s community as an important aspect of individual character development and the creation of a strong community. These Trinity students, selected from the School’s Honor Roll, serve as pages for The Richmond Forum this season. Through their service, the students facilitate an exchange of ideas that broadens our understanding of the trends and issues shaping our lives and our community.

Drew Acquaye Garrett Allen Dominic Angeli Frank Barksdale III Caroline Bell Harper Bibb Jack Bibb Emma Blake Katherine Bowe Matthew Brassington Katherine Cantone Carolyn Corbet Ellis Credle

Katherine Daniel Grace Diloreto Suzanne Diloreto Michael Donnelly Meredith Eaheart Andrea Eichenberger Sallie Ellett Ann Maclin Ferrell Cameron Ferris Alexandria Flood James Flowers Alexa Fojtik Anastasia Graves

Meredith Hughes Mary Kern Samuel Kettlewell-Sites Natalie King Parker Layton Caroline Lea Matthew Majikes Phebe Martin Madison Michalec Julia Morton Ellis Mumford Daniel Pelkey Erin Reedy

Elizabeth Rivera Logan Roberts Collin Sandler Parker Shama Cole Shugart Rebecca Walko Noah Witt Noah Yates Elizabeth Kelley, Advisor Sarah McDermott, Advisor

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Thirty Seasons of The Richmond Forum

1987 January Ted Koppel February Hodding Carter, Paul Duke and Larry Speakes March Diane Sawyer with Brent Scowcroft April Charles Kuralt

1988 January Oprah Winfrey February Marvin Kalb, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Vladimir Pozner March George Will April Art Buchwald

1989 January Sam Donaldson February Henry Kissinger and John Chancellor March William Buckley and Charles Rangel April Dr. Carl Sagan

1990 January Paul Duke, Howard Fineman and Charles McDowell February Frank Carlucci, Bettina Gregory, George McGovern, William Proxmire and William Rusher

March Mike Wallace April Alistair Cooke 1 990–1991 October Chancellor Helmut Schmidt January Adm. William Crowe, Gen. Alexander Haig, Robert McFarlane and Edwin Newman February H. Ross Perot March Art Buchwald and Andy Rooney April James Burke, Dr. Frank Drake and James Lovell

1991–1992 October Barbara Walters January PM Margaret Thatcher February Larry King with Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf March Patricia Cornwell, Dr. Victor McKusick and Dr. Marc Micozzi April Mark Russell 1 992–1993 October Terry Anderson January Hiroki Kato and T. Boone Pickens February Dr. Joyce Brothers March Bill Cosby April Mikhail Gorbachev with Cokie Roberts 1 993–1994 November Lamar Alexander, Marvin Cetron, Sen. Warren Rudman with Chris Wallace January Louis Rukeyser with Frank Cappiello and Michael Holland February President George H. W. Bush March Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross April Bob Newhart 1994–1995 November Gen. Colin Powell January Walter Cronkite February Dave Barry March Tom Clancy April Jack Kemp and George Mitchell

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with David Hartman February Calvin Trillin March Charles Kuralt April David Gergen, Pierre Salinger, Sheila Tate, Bob Woodward with Ed Bradley

1996–1997 November Dick Cavett and Carl Reiner January Ray Brady with Paul A. Volcker February Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough March Andrew Lloyd Webber with David Frost April Marcia Clark, Philip K. Howard, Dr. Rodney Smolla, Kym Worthy with Prof. Arthur Miller

1997–1998 November Bill Moyers January Wynton Marsalis February PM Shimon Peres March Mary Tyler Moore April Peter Lynch 1 998–1999 November PM John Major January Robert Bennett and Dr. William Bennett with Tim Russert February Harry S. Dent and Lou Dobbs March Lily Tomlin April Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean-Michel Cousteau

1999–2000 November Julie Andrews January Todd Brewster and Peter Jennings February Ray Brady, Michael Connors and John Krubski March Archbishop Desmond Tutu April James Carville and Newt Gingrich

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with Gwen Ifill 2 002–2003 November Ken Burns January Rudolph W. Giuliani February PM Benazir Bhutto and Queen Noor with Gwen Ifill March Louis Freeh April Sen. Fred Thompson

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2011–2012 November Dr. Robert Ballard January Robert Gates February Quincy Jones with Tim Reid March Charles Krauthammer and Robert Reich

with John Donvan April Sir Ken Robinson and Rafe Esquith

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Maajid Nawaz with John Donvan January Dan Buettner February President George W. Bush March PM Gordon Brown April Steve Martin and Martin Short 2014–2015 November Diana Nyad January Garry Trudeau March Ben Bernanke April Dr. Daniel Levitin and Rosanne Cash

May Gen. Keith Alexander and Robert Mueller

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