Our Events..
NYC, DC, Atlanta, LA, Denver, KC, Montgomery, Boston... Louise Story and Ebony Reed have convened gatherings about racial wealth gaps across the country.
We have been so glad to see you on the road, especially during the week of Juneteenth. Our events have gone well beyond our book and Yale teaching — we’ve brought in regional guests to join us to add context to our findings. We draw out audience questions and encourage mingling. We share data about the Black-white wealth gap, and speak about our goals. Below are our upcoming events…
Upcoming Events:
January -
Jan 20. Bridgeport, Connecticut. Mount Aery Baptist Church. 9am.
February -
Feb 8-9. Washington D.C. Watch this page for details, and email Louise.Story@gmail.com if you have D.C.-based communities you’d like to invite to the events this weekend in DC.
Feb 11. Bedford, NY.
Bedford Books. Sign up here.
Feb 22. Cincinnati, Ohio.
Watch this page for details.
Late Feb. Columbia, Missouri.
Watch this page for details, and email EBSReed@gmail.com if you have Columbia-based communities you’d like to invite to events in late Feb in Columbia.
We are currently planning some special programming for the rest of 2025, and we invite you to be in touch (Louise.Story@gmail.com) if you would like us to come to your community.
If you’re curious what past events we have held, here are some outtakes:
2024:
Monday, February 26: Kansas City, Mo. “Racial Wealth Gap Symposium.” This event was a great success. Read more here
Friday, April 12: Winter Park, Fl. “The Black-White Wealth Gap: What You Should Know and Why it Matters.” This event was a great success. Read more here.
Friday, April 26-Saturday, April 27: Montgomery, Ala. “Capital Matters Symposium.”
Monday, April 29: Austin, Tex. “Wealth is Where History Shows Up in Your Wallet.”
May 4-5: Fairfield County, Conn. and Westchester County. Gatherings.
Thursday, May 23: Palo Alto, Ca. “Unjust: Race and Money in America.” A Symposium at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Sign up was here.
Thursday, May 30: Roxbury neighborhood in Boston, Mass. “Racial Wealth Gap Symposium in the Historically Black Roxbury Neighborhood.” Sign up was here. And we featured some of the speakers’ thoughts from the event here.
Wednesday, June 19: New York, NY. On this historic day, we participated in two separate events.
June 19: “Juneteenth Event in Times Square: The Black-White Wealth Gap and the Quest for Financial Equality.” An event featuring three individuals from the pages of “Fifteen Cents on the Dollar” as well as leaders from New York Cares, Legal Aid Society and the Players Coalition. This event also featured a panel with President Biden’s former leader of racial equity initiatives, a leading venture capitalist, a scholar on race and inequality, and a Black press entrepreneur. Sign up was here.
June 19: “Celebrate Juneteenth at West End.” We joined three individuals from our book onstage in this event, which was open to the public. 7p.m. at the Sanctuary at West End Church. 245 w. 77th Street, New York, NY. Details on calendar here.
Friday, June 21: Washington, D.C.
June 21: “Financial Punishment: The Black-White Wealth Gap and the Justice System.” At the National Press Club, D.C. Sign up was here.
Saturday, June 22: Atlanta, Ga.
June 22: “Is Atlanta Really a Black Mecca?” A symposium on the Black-white gap in Atlanta and nationally at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. Sign up for this free event was here.
Monday, June 24: Los Angeles, Cal.
—1pm: The Gathering Spot LA. Sign up was in the Gathering Spot membership app.
—6pm: Book Talk. Louise Story and Ebony Reed’s Fifteen Cents on the Dollar.” Chevalier’s Books. Sign up for this free event was here.
Tuesday, June 25: Denver, Col.
June 25: A Conversation about Race and Money held at The Museum for Black Girls. Sign up for this free event was here.
Wednesday, June 26: Kansas City, Mo. “Ebony Reed Discusses Her New Book: Fifteen Cents on the Dollar.” Sign up was here.
Thursday, June 27: Atlanta, Ga. “Capital B: Black Political Power Tour.” An event run by Capital B News. Sign up for this free event was here.
Saturday, June 29: Tulsa, Ok. Fulton Street Books. Sign up was here.
Wednesday, December 4: Westport, CT. “How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap: Exploring Inequality with Fairfield County’s Community Foundation.” More info here.
