SPECIAL MEETING: Continuing the Conversation on Race, a presentation by Stephen Menendian
Tue, Jul 09
|Ygnacio Valley Library - Contra Costa Co
Come hear about the jaw-dropping new report by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society from the Assistant Director, Stephen Menendian
Time & Location
Jul 09, 2019, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Ygnacio Valley Library - Contra Costa Co, 2661 Oak Grove Rd, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, USA
About The Event
If you attended the Conversation on Race with Congressman Mark DeSaulnier in April...
You heard Stephen Menendian, Assistant Director and Director of Research at the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, talk about Residential Racial Segregation in the SF Bay Area.
You saw him present his jaw-dropping slides.
He had only a few minutes then, but now he'll have more time to present the full Haas Report and answer our questions.
From The Haas Report:
"Segregation is one of our nation’s most enduring and intractable problems. More than 60 years since the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision denounced racial segregation in primary and secondary public schools, and 50 years since the enactment of the federal Fair Housing Act, our neighborhoods and schools have yet to reflect the rich diversity of our nation as a whole. Given the seriousness of the problem of racial…