For this year's Aspen Challenge event, 160 teens were challenged by five business and community leaders.

Hearing civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis speak about his experiences in Selma, Alabama, at lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee, and at the March on Washington is undeniably moving and inspiring. But hearing him describe the minute details of those seminal events — and his personal story that led him there — transported an Aspen Institute audience back to a time, not too long ago, that serves as a lingering reminder of why we should never forget the evils of discrimination and segregation.

This publication describes the problem of structural racism, particularly as it relates to youth, and highlights implications for youth development work.