For those who are watching the State of the Black Union live on C-SPAN, or watching online here: http://www.cspan.org/...
Use this diary to leave your commentary and observations about the symposium.
Tavis Smiley has hosted this event for nearly ten years. There has been a lot of attention to the symposium this year due to the controversy of Barack Obama declining an invitation to speak at the event, while Hillary Clinton accepted her invitation to speak.
More information can be foundhere about the event.
Hillary Clinton will make her address around 5:30 EST
**Note**
Here is the link to the diary liveblogging the morning session of the symposium.