The Media Consortium, the Insight Center
MC Contact: Tracy Van Slyke
tracy@themediaconsortium.comAmerica's most glaring economic injustice is the racial wealth gap: families of color have only 15 cents of wealth to the white family's dollar. The racial wealth gap has been caused by government policies from the expropriation of Indian lands and slavery, to many aspects of the New Deal like the GI bill and Social Security, to current policies like the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction and unregulated housing and financial markets. The Oakland-based Insight Center's Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative has over 120 experts of color across the country who are resources to journalists and elected officials on federal, state and local economic stories and policies.
On Tuesday, June 16, this call will feature story ideas and investigative journalism proposals from:
Michael E. Roberts, President, First Nations Development Institute, on Closing the Racial Wealth Gap in Indian country
Avis A. Jones-DeWeever, Ph.D., Director, National Council of Negro Women, Research, Public Policy, and Information Center, on her new report Assessing the Double Burden: Examining Racial and Gender Disparities in Mortgage Lending, co-released with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition
Janis Bowdler, Senior Housing Policy Analyst, National Council of La Raza on the housing crisis and Latinos
Short presentations will be followed by Q&A.
To access ECON, the Experts of Color Network, visit
www.expertsofcolor.org. For narratives on the racial wealth gap and proposals to close it, visit
www.racialweathgap.org. For more information on The Media Consortium, visit
www.themediaconsortium.org.
WHAT: Journalist Webinar Briefing: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
WHEN: 9 a.m. PST/12 p.m. EST, Tuesday, June 16 (40 minutes)
WHO: Insight Center Closing The Racial Wealth Gap Initiative and The Media Consortium
To RSVP:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/854239593.
Please RSVP by Monday, June 15 at 3 EST.
HOW TO SUBSCRIBE:
About The Media Consortium
The Media Consortium, a network of the country’s leading, independent media outlets has formed to amplify our voices; increase our collective clout; leverage our current audience and reach out to new ones; transform our sector’s position in a rapidly changing media and political environment; and redefine ourselves and progressivism for a new century.
About NAM
New America Media is the country's first and largest national collaboration and advocate for more than 2500 ethnic news organizations. Over 51 million ethnic adults connect to each other, to home countries and to America through 3000+ ethnic media, the fastest growing sector of American journalism. Founded by the nonprofit Pacific News Service in 1996, NAM is headquartered in California with offices in New York and Washington D.C. NAM also partners with journalism schools to grow local associations of ethnic media around the nation.
Visit NAM's homepage for news and updates on our programs here.
