America will celebrate its 250th birthday after winning the revolution and one university reflects on where the nation stands today.

Tuesday evening, Mercyhurst University hosted one of its discussion panels, inviting the community for a civil conversation.

Tuesday night's panel was called Revisiting the Revolution: Civil Disobedience. This focused on the parallels of the political uprising in the American Revolution and its connection on present-day America and the impacts it causes on all levels of government.

"We need to have these discussions on small campuses and big campuses, small cities, big cities, because that shapes who we are as a nation," said Carlos Mora, a panelist for Erie County United

"We have such strong opinions, and because we don't do enough active listening we do

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