The Racial Wealth Divide (RWD) program deepens the understanding about the historical and contemporary barriers to wealth creation among communities of color. RWD highlights the importance of wealth and wealth-building strategies among communities struggling to attain economic equality.
We develop and offer resources – such as workshops, publications, data, policy initiatives, and community empowerment strategies -- for community leaders, activists, organizations, media, and the public at large. Our goal is to help create a network of people and groups who want to abolish the racial wealth divide.
The Racial Wealth Divide program:
- Raises public awareness of the historical and contemporary barriers to economic equality and racial justice.
- Highlights asset-building strategies to eliminate systematic poverty and its disproportionate effect on people of color.
- Engages people in dialogue around wealth, not just income, as fundamental to ending economic racial inequality
- Initiates and shares resources around innovative strategies, public policies, communications work and grassroots organizing that fight against the growing racial economic divide.
- Brings together the grassroots, organizations and public officials to address local, state and federal policy to help eradicate poverty through asset-building strategies to create economic equality.
The Latest
Dishonoring MLK's Legacy
Conservative TV personality Glenn Beck schedules "Restoring Honor" book launch at Washington Monument on anniversary of '63 march led by MLK, Jr. State of the Dream 2010 co-author Dedrick Muhammad denounces Beck as ignorant, says it's not too late to restore his own honor. August 10, 2010
Larry Yates Counters Sen. Jim Webb's "Myth of White Privilege"
Former UFE board member, Larry Yates, dismantles Sen. Jim Webb's (D-VA) argument against affirmative action, using good old fashioned facts and a splash of life experience. July 27, 2010
Bursting Bubbles, Buyers' Markets & Broken Dreams
UFE's Mazher Ali & Sarah Burris of Future Majority to co-lead a discussion on the impacts of the economic crisis on the housing market at the 2009 A Better Deal conference hosted by Demos. October 13, 2009
Foreclosure & Community Stabilization Conference (Mass.)
Find out what YOU can do to reverse the foreclosure crisis in Massachusetts. Interact with elected officials, housing, legal, community organizing
experts and other concerned residents about cutting edge activities that are impacting the foreclosure crisis now and how we can increase our impact!
March 31, 2009
The Silent Depression: The Racial Wealth Divide in 2009
A panel discussion on the State and Future of the Racial Wealth Divide with Meizhu Lui (Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative of Insight CCED), Amaad Rivera (United For a Fair Economy), and Dedrick Muhammad (Institue for Policy Studies), presented at the Jamaica Plain Forum, Boston, MA.
January 12, 2009
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