Eliminating the Racial Wealth Gap and Ending Poverty

IMAGINE MORE: Racial Justice Begins With Us -- a six-part zoom series co-designed with non-profit partners and focused on reparations and racial justice.

The goal of the series is to frame New Jersey’s critical racial justice issues and highlight substantive policy and practice remedies for reparations. The sessions will stream live and will be available for later viewing. All are open to the public at no cost. The event will be close-captioned and simultaneously translated into Spanish and Arabic. Our hope is that this series will build awareness about the issues and cultivate energy for action to encourage everyday people to use our power and voices to lead change.

The first event – Eliminating the Racial Wealth Gap & Ending Poverty – will be held on Thursday February 24 at 6:00 – 7:15 pm. The session features Andrea McChristian from the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, Khalil Muhammad from Harvard, and Solomon Middleton-Williams from the Newark Community Street Team. New Jersey Institute for Social Justice Board Chair Paulette Brown will moderate the discussion. I hope you will join us to learn about this critical issue and what can be done in New Jersey.

The series covers six topics over six months:

 

Eliminating the Racial Wealth Gap and Ending Poverty	February 24, 6-7:15 pm
Disrupting the Criminal Justice System	March 15, 6-7:15 pm
Achieving Safe and Healthy Homes for All	April 26, 6-7:15 pm
Reaching Equity in Education	May 17, 6-7:15 pm
Ensuring Health for All	June 21, 6-7:15 pm
Building Political Power of the Most Impacted	July 19, 6-7:15 pm

 

We are pleased to be joined by our co-sponsors: Council of New Jersey Grantmakers, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Victoria Foundation, Princeton Area Community Foundation, Schumann Fund for New Jersey, the Center for Non-Profits, Rutgers’ Eagleton Institute, and several other non-profits. If you would like to lend your support as a co-sponsor, please let me know and we will be glad to welcome you. It sends a powerful message to the public to see so many of New Jersey’s civic institutions supporting racial justice and the work to repair the harms of structural racism.