Our Events..
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:
Saturday, September 7: Austin, Tx.: “Closing the Wealth Gap.” Louise will speak about closing wealth gaps at the Texas Tribune Festival at 9 a.m.. More information on the session here.
Sunday, September 8: Chicago, Il.: “Health and Wealth Gaps.” Louise will speak on the connections between wealth gaps and health care at the Printers Row Literary Festival at 3 p.m. More information is here.
Friday, September 13: Washington, D.C. "Reparations Now: America's Historical Unpaid Debt to Descendants of Formerly Enslaved Africans," sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and Wilson Global Communications. Ebony will join a panel at 11 a.m. in Room 206 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Thursday, October 17: Kansas City, Mo.: “ComNET24 Lighting Leadership Keynote” at 5 p.m. by Ebony. Read more here.
Saturday, October 19: Virtual. “Reporting on the realities of incarceration.” Ebony will join a panel at 11:30 a.m. and speak on the interaction of race, money and the justice system as it relates to the reporting of our book at the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference.
Saturday, October 19: Louisville, Ky.: "Everyone should care about the Black-white wealth gap" by Ebony at the Louisville Book Fair and will include a data presentation. Ebony will speak at 3 p.m. at the Kentucky International Convention Center. Read more here.
Weekend of November 16-17: Austin, Tx. Louise and Ebony will speak at the Texas Book Festival. The festival will be releasing the exact timing soon on its web site.
We are currently planning some special programming for February 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:
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.
