If the ticket fee is prohibitive, please send us a note and we’re happy to share a comp code good for a free ticket. We charge for our events in order to cover the costs associated with hosting. Please take a minute and read it through. We enforce a Code of Conduct at our events. Ta-Nahesi Coates’ Atlantic feature from 2014, The Case for Reparations, which outlines some history of redlining in the USĪ recent Center for Investigative Reporting report on mortgage lending in African-American communities If you’re looking for a brief primer on the topic before the event, we recommend:Īn interview with Richard Rothstein by Terry Gross on Fresh Air You don’t need to have read the book to join us for this event. We’ll hear directly from him on how this inequity was instituted and how it persists in our own backyard. Richard Rothstein lives in the East Bay and points to neighborhoods like Rockridge as a case study for how these policies have played out over time. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated Americaby Richard Rothstein charts the history of how local, state, and federal government policies and programs segregated cities across America. On April 3rd, we’ll be discussing the book with the author. The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein is a dive into America’s housing policy and how segregation has persisted because of the laws and policy decisions of local, state, and federal governments over the last century. However, it did nothing to reverse the deeply racial undertones that were already embedded in American society. In 1968, the Fair Housing Act was enacted to prohibit future discrimination in our housing policy.
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