DAY 1: THE FUTURE OF BLACK AMERICA
WELCOME: OPENING REMARKS (00:00)
- Joint Center President Spencer Overton
POLLING PRESENTATION: THE ROLE OF BLACK PEOPLE IN THE 2020 ELECTION (06:48)
- HIT Strategies Founding Partner Terrance Woodbury
CONVERSATION: THE NEXT FOUR YEARS FOR BLACK AMERICA (23:08)
- Moderator: NPR's All Things Considered Weekend Host Michel Martin
- Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman-elect Joyce Beatty
- Biden-Harris Transition Team Outreach Director Ashley Allison
PANEL: PRIORITIES OF EMERGING BLACK COMMUNITIES (01:02:42)
- Moderator: CNN Political Commentator Bakari Sellers
- Hudson-Webber Foundation President & CEO Melanca Clark
- University of Chicago Professor Cathy Cohen
FIRESIDE CHAT: BLACK AMERICA, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE ECONOMY (01:32:03)
- Uber Chief Legal Officer Tony West
- Algorithms of Oppression author Safiya Noble
DAY 2: BLACK RESILIENCE AFTER 2020
PANEL: THE FUTURE OF BLACK WORKERS, FAMILIES, AND BUSINESSES AFTER 2020 (00:32)
- CBS News Analyst Jamal Simmons
- House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott
- Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester
CONVERSATION: THE ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF COVID-19 FOR BLACK COMMUNITIES (39:27)
- Color of Change President Rashad Robinson
- Michigan State University Economics Professor Lisa Cook
FIRESIDE CHAT: CORPORATE COMMITMENT TO BLACK ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DISMANTLING SYSTEMIC BARRIERS (01:14:31)
- Black Economic Alliance Co-Chair Charles Phillips
- Dallas Mavericks CEO Cynthia Marshall
CONVERSATION: INCREASING BLACK WEALTH IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE PANDEMIC (01:39:40)
- Ariel Investments Chairman, Co-CEO & Chief Investment Officer John W. Rogers, Jr.
- Joint Center President Spencer Overton
DAY 3: THE FUTURE OF THE JOINT CENTER
FIRESIDE CHAT: LEARNING FROM THE LEGACY OF BOULE ARCHONS EDDIE WILLIAMS, ELIJAH CUMMINGS, AND JOHN LEWIS (00:18)
- House Majority Whip James Clyburn
- Dr. Gregory J. Vincent, Professor and Executive Director, Education and Civil Rights Initiative, University of Kentucky 48th Grand Sire Archon, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity Inc. (the Boulé)
REMARKS FROM JEARLINE WILLIAMS (41:16)
PRESENTATION: THE LEGACY OF THE JOINT CENTER (44:51)
- ABFE President Susan Taylor Batten
- Black Voters Matter Co-Founder LaTosha Brown
- Duke University Economics Professor William “Sandy” Darity
- Hewlett Foundation President Larry Kramer
- Lumina Foundation President Jamie Merisotis
THE ROLE OF A BLACK THINK TANK TODAY AND MOVING FORWARD (52:20)
- Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Karen Bass
- Joint Center President Spencer Overton
REMARKS FROM THE HONOREE OF THE 2020 LOUIS E. MARTIN AWARD (01:30:55)
- Congressman Cedric Richmond
CLOSING REMARKS (01:37:24)
- Joint Center Board Chair Barbara Johnson
Special thanks to our staff, sponsors, speakers (listed above), Board of Governors, and host committee (listed below), who helped bring our 50th anniversary event to you.
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Barbara L. Johnson, Chair • Robert Raben, Secretary • Robert R. Hagans Jr., Treasurer • Spencer Overton, President • A. Scott Bolden • Paula Boyd • Chanelle Hardy • Kenneth Jones • Dr. Dianne M. Pinderhughes • Carla Thompson Payton • Paul N.D. Thornell • Antonio Williams
EDDIE WILLIAMS FUTURE OF BLACK COMMUNITIES LEADERSHIP SUMMIT HOST COMMITTEE
Paul Brathwaite • Roz Brooks • Ellen-Blair Chube • Fabrice Coles • Satonya Fair • Isaac Fordjour • Adam Hodge • Fred Humphries • Maria Kirby • Ashley Lewis • Marcus Sebastian Mason • Aaron Moore • Michelle Persaud • Michael Powell • Dontai L. Smalls • Nigel Stephens • Kenny Thompson, Jr. • Dr. Gregory Vincent • Hilary West • Cherie Wilson
SPONSORS
Chair: The Boulé • Comcast NBCUniversal
Member: Amazon • Apple • GCM Grosvenor • General Motors • Google • Mastercard • Microsoft • The Rockefeller Foundation • TMobile • W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Friend: Advocate Aurora Healthcare • Aflac • Alabama Power Company • AT&T • Duke Energy • Facebook • IBM • Kapor Center • NCTA • PepsiCo • Peter G. Peterson Foundation • Pfizer • PWC • STARZ
Advocate: AARP • America's Health Insurance • Ariel Investments • BET • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • Charter Communications • CSX • DELL Technologies • FedEx • Goldman Sachs • Infor • JPMorgan Chase & Co • Reed Smith LLP • Toyota • UPS • Upstart Network • US Telecom • Waymo • Wells Fargo • William Blair & Company
Gold: Business Roundtable • Epsilon Phi Boulé • Exelon Corporation • Mindset • Verizon
Silver: Calpine • Federal Street Strategies • FICO • Honda • Lyft • Medtronic • New York Life • Structured Finance Association • Washington Government Relations Group
Bronze: American Political Science Association • Bad Robot • Edgar Lomax • MUFG Union Bank • National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies • Retail Industry Leaders Association • Sabio Enterprises, Inc.