Forum can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-QmeEfLAek
WASHINGTON – A pubic forum to discuss the impact of the economic challenges and persistent inequities facing African American communities across the country will be held Tuesday, June 23, 2015, at 9:30 a.m.- 12 p.m. at the University of Baltimore, Maryland.
Congressman G. K. Butterfield, Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Ranking Democrat on the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC), and Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, will host the forum and hold a press conference afterwards.
Reps. Butterfield, Maloney and Cummings will be joined by members of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Joint Economic Committee, House Democratic members of the Maryland Delegation, and community leaders.
Participants will hold a press conference immediately following the event.
WHO:
Panelists:
• Maya Rockeymoore, President and CEO, Global Policy Solutions
• James Carr, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
• William Darity, Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, Duke University
• Michael Cryor, Director, One Baltimore
• Stokey Cannady, Founder and CEO, The Stokey Project
• Darius Davis, President, Harbor Bank
• Tara Huffman, Director of the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program, Open Society
Institute – Baltimore
• Sheridan Todd Yeary, Pastor, Douglas Memorial Community Church
• Dr. Louis Wilson, Pastor, New Song Community Church
• Munir Bahar, COR Health Institute
WHAT: A public forum, entitled: “The American Dream on Hold: Economic Challenges in
the African American Community”
WHEN: Tuesday, June 23, at 9:30 a.m. until 12:00 p.m.
WHERE: The University of Baltimore - Learning Commons
1415 Maryland Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
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