Black Lives Matter: A 3-Part Series of Community Conversations on Racial Equity, Justice, and Resilience
Join the City of Dallas and Dallas Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation on July 9, 2020 for our Community Conversations on the importance of resilience. This conversation is part three of Black Lives Matter: A 3-Part Series of Community Conversations on Racial Equity, Justice & Resilience.
Part 3: Resilience
Resilience is the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses, and systems within a city to survive, adapt, and thrive in the face of both shocks and stressors. City resilience is about making a city better, in both good times and bad, for the benefit of all its residents.
Dallas is a prosperous community, yet despite the pre-COVID economic growth, large segments of our African American community were not thriving. Too many of our residents are confronted by the systemic barriers of homelessness, poverty, unemployment, underemployment, racial inequity, food insecurity, and the lack of access to quality health care and education. Dallas’s true resilience challenge - particularly during and post pandemic - is overcoming the social and economic challenges that deny many communities of color social justice, access to health care, and economic well-being for themselves and their families.
When
July 9, 2020 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Moderator
- Lady Jade, National Radio Personality and Philanthropist
Panelists
- Dr. Njoki McElroy, Professor Emeritus at SMU and Historian
- T.C. Broadnax, City Manager, City of Dallas
- Dr. Michael Sorrell, President, Paul Quinn College
- Dr. Kelvin Baggett, Health and Health Care Access Czar, City of Dallas
- Bemnet Meshesha, MSW Director ofCommunity Affairs, State Fair of Texas
Link to Event
WebEx: bit.ly/2Bk0Swk
Event Line: 1-408-418-9388
Access Code: 146 901 0144
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