Building Community Wealth After COVID
Channel: New America
Date: 29/04/2020

New America Indianapolis and The Indianapolis Recorder are both committed to ensuring that the perspectives of Black Midwesterners are represented and engaged in solving public problems. The COVID-19 outbreak is impacting all Americans but it will, quite simply, impact Black America differently. Systemic barriers and racism have set the stage -- we cannot respond to the crisis without facing those barriers explicitly and as a community.

Join us for "COVID and the Black Community" a weekly online community conversation series, co-hosted by New America and the Recorder, and featuring local and national experts and resources. The fifth installment in the series is April 28 from 2:00pm - 3:30pm ET: "Building Community Wealth After COVID."

Business and home ownership are perilous ground for many Black Americans due to systemic biases and challenges, from redlining to pay gaps. The COVID crisis has caused widespread job and business loss. Even with interventions like rent/mortgage moratoria or the CARES Act, Black Americans have lost ground on building wealth during the COVID crisis--and in Indiana there wasn't much ground to lose.

ROUNDTABLE:

Oseye Boyd, Editor - The Indianapolis Recorder and Indiana Minority Business Magazine
Justin Christian, Founder/CEO - BCforward
Marlin Jackson, Social Entrepreneur, Founder/CEO - Fight For Life Foundation, Founder/President - Revive Property Group
Molly Martin, Director - New America Indianapolis
John Thompson, Chairman/CEO - Thomas Distribution Company, Inc.; First Electric Supply Company, LLC; CMID; and BC-SESCO

Registration is free and open to all.

The Indianapolis Recorder is one of the nation's leading Black newspapers. It celebrates its 125th anniversary this year.

Thank you to our community partners at Side Effects Public Media.

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