Speakers
How do we explain today’s disparities in progress for Black America? On February 8, senior fellow Jason Riley joined Brown University’s Glenn Loury to discuss Dr. Loury’s reflections on the persistence of racial inequality (the subject of a forthcoming Manhattan Institute paper), followed by a panel conversation.
Despite the tremendous progress made by many African-Americans over the past half-century, the black community continues to experience disproportionate hardship on measures such as poverty, college completion, crime, and out-of-wedlock births. How do we explain today’s disparities in progress for Black America? Are they the products of structural injustices, cultural forces, some synthesis of the two, or other as-yet-unidentified factors?
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9:00 – 9:10 AM |
INTRODUCTION
Jason Riley, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
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| 9:10 – 9:50 AM |
INTERVIEW
Glenn Loury, Merton Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, Brown University
Jason Riley, MI
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| 9:50 – 10:50 AM |
PANEL
Michael Fortner, Assistant Professor of Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
Coleman Hughes, Class of 2020, Columbia University
Howard Husock, Vice President for Research & Publications, Manhattan Institute
Ian Rowe, Chief Executive Officer, Public Preparatory Network
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| 10:50 – 11:00 AM |
CLOSING REMARKS
Glenn Loury, Brown University
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communications@manhattan-institute.org