Organizing and Town Halls

Style Magazine Newswire | 4/20/2020, 3:45 p.m.

Upcoming events include sessions on "COVID and the Class of 2020 - Black Students' Transitions to College and Work" (New America Indianapolis, Apr. 21) and “Under the Blacklight Part Five” (African American Policy Forum, Apr. 22) on ways to protect the most vulnerable populations).

Last week, virtual webinars focusing on the impact of COVID-19 on the Black community were held by Governance Studies at Brookings, the NAACP in conjunction with BET, the Congressional Black Caucus, Third Way Michigan, and New America Indianapolis.

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, America’s Black think tank, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1970 and based in Washington, DC. The Joint Center's mission is to inform and illuminate the nation's major public policy debates through research, analysis, and information dissemination in order to improve the socioeconomic status of Black communities in the United States; expand their effective participation in the political and public policy arenas; and promote communication and relationships across racial and ethnic lines to strengthen the nation's pluralistic society.