After a week of speeches from major party leaders, the Democratic National Convention concludes on Thursday.
Among the speakers on day four will be Jon Meacham, historian and host of Cadence13’s “Hope, Through History."
According to multiple reports, Meacham will address the convention from Nashville.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian has eulogized both the late former President George H.W. Bush and the late Rep. John Lewis.
Meacham has said that he’s voted for both parties in the past. But he’s been openly critical of Donald Trump, saying the president “poses such a clear and present danger to the things we should value most that I think it's incumbent on all of us who believe that to say something.”
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Also speaking on Thursday will be Andrew Yang, former presidential candidate and host of Cadence13’s “Yang Speaks.”
Yang formerly ran against Joe Biden in the Democratic presidential primaries, before dropping out of the race and throwing his support behind Barack Obama’s former vice president in March.
Yang has been openly critical of his own party.
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“If we're not standing up for the trucker, the waitress or the retail clerk, who are we standing up for?” he told the Washington Post on Wednesday, per Fox News. "Democrats have this tendency to have a message out there and then if you don't like the message, it's like, well, it's your fault. …There's this patronizing element to a lot of what we say and do, and it's hurting us, and it's wrong, unproductive, it's a great way to not win."
On Thursday, Biden is expected to accept his presidential nomination at the convention’s final night of programming.
Kamala Harris made history at the convention on Wednesday when she was nominated for vice president, becoming the first woman of color to be nominated on a major party’s ticket.
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