Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason Riley joined Brown University’s Glenn Loury to discuss Dr. Loury’s upcoming Manhattan Institute working paper, followed with a panel conversation moderated by Howard Husock.
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?
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
Barriers To Black Progress: Structural, Cultural, Or Both? | Manhattan Institute
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?
9:00 – 9:10 AM
INTRODUCTION
Jason Riley, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
9:10 – 9:50 AM
INTERVIEW
Glenn Loury, Merton Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, Brown University
Jason Riley, MI
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
10:50 – 11:00 AM
CLOSING REMARKS
Glenn Loury, Brown University
