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Black America: The Economic State of Emergency

The Institute of the Black World presents the first meeting of the Shirley Chisholm Presidential Accountability Commission.

IPS scholar Dedrick Muhammad will speak on the human face of the racial divide and the economic crisis.

Schedule:

Welcome: Rick Adams, Chair of the IBW Board of Directors and Convener for the Commission Overview and Introduction of the Shirley Chisholm Presidential Accountability Commission Members

Opening remarks: Dr. Elsie Scott, President Congressional Black Caucus Foundation

Greetings: Hon. John Conyers*, Member of Congress
Hon Barbara Lee*, Member of Congress

1- 2:30 PM
Public Panel One: The Human Face of the Economic Crisis

• Moderator: Attorney Nkechi Taifa, Senior Policy Analyst, Open Society Foundation, Washington, DC
• Mr. Walter Fields, Executive Editor, North Star News, Newark, New Jersey
• Dedrick Muhammad,  Senior Organizer and Research Associate for the Program on Inequality and the Common Good, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC
• Ms. Faye Moore, President, Social Services Employees Union Local 371, New York, New York

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2:30- 4 PM
Public Panel Two: Legislative and Policy Solutions to the Economic Crisis

• Moderator: Dr. Duchess Harris, Associate Professor, American Studies, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
• Dr Ron Walters, Pre-eminent political scientist, author, distinguished leadership scholar, College Park, MD
• Dr. Julianne Malveaux, President, Bennett College for Women, economist, author, commentator, Founder & Thought Leader of Last Word Productions, Inc, Bennett College, Greensboro, NC
• Erica L. Williams, Deputy Director for Progress 2050, Center for American Progress, Washington DC

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