Submitted by Micky Hingorani on Tue, 09/19/2006 - 11:38am
If you are in DC and have some free time on September 28th, we recommend you check out this (free) forum at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. It should be an engaging and informative discussion about the impact of race, poverty, and gender on African American women and their families. Details below.
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For Better or For Worse: The Implications of Poverty, Gender and Race on African American Women and Their Families
When: Thursday, September 28, 2006, 4 PM – 6 PM
Where: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
1629 K Street, NW
10th Floor – conference room
Washington, DC 20006
RSVP: RSpraggins@deltafoundation.net or call (202) 347-1337.
The Forum Discussion brings thought-provoking speakers, scholars, activists and community leaders to discuss poverty, race and gender and their impact on African American women and their families. These discussions promise to generate personal reflection and social action within our communities.
This event will show the depths and varieties of women’s poverty. A distinguished panel will discuss and examine the connection between the social, economic, cultural and political impact of poverty on African American women and their families
Moderated by: Dr. Chester Hartman, Director of Research, Poverty & Race Research Action Council, and co-editor of There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina just published by Routledge.
Confirmed panelists include:
Dr. Roderick Harrison, Director of Databank at The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, DC.
Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeever, Director of the Poverty, Education and Social Justice Programs at The Institute for Women Policy Research in Washington, DC.
Dr. William Spriggs, Chair of the Economics Department at Howard University in Washington, DC.
Dr. Susan Popkin, Senior Research Associate, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Planning center at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC.
A Q&A session will follow.
Sponsored by: Delta Research and Educational Foundation, The Center for Research on African American Women, and The Poverty & Race Research Action Council
