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CSI DIRECTOR MAYA WILEY IN WASHINGTON POST
Friday, October 21st, 2011(originally published in The Washington Post on 10/20/2011)
What Obama could learn from Clinton and Johnson on racial inequities
By Maya Wiley
I remember when Sen. Barack Obama confronted race in America in an eloquent and powerful 2008 speech, promising to work for a “more equal, more free, more caring and more prosperous America.” He pledged to take on “the complexities of race in this country that we’ve never really worked through.” Sadly, Obama is falling short of the president who accomplished the most for communities of color since Lincoln: white Southerner Lyndon Johnson. He is also falling short of another white, Southern president who pursued a national dialogue on race: Bill Clinton.
History shows that when presidents confront racial inequity, America sees vast improvements. President Johnson pushed for passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. Black voter registration rates in …
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WEBINAR: MESSAGING RACE TO WIN POLICY REFORM WITH MAYA WILEY AND DREW WESTEN
Thursday, August 25th, 2011Can we talk about race in upcoming policy debates? With the right communications strategies we can.
The Center for Social Inclusion, a national policy strategy organization, has worked with Westen Strategies, LLC, the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, and others since 2007 to create communications strategies on race to win policy reform we all need. This webinar will share the results of CSI and Westen Strategies’ collaboration on multimedia message development and testing that shows how to effectively remove the race wedge from policy discussions and build more support for progressive policies.
Presenters Maya Wiley and noted political psychologist and founder of Westen Strategies, LLC, will share the results of message testing focused on health care reform and financial reform – two critical reform policy debates. They will offer lessons learned and apply them to communications strategies proven effective with swing voters. This webinar will also …
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MAYA WILEY ON THE RACIAL OPPORTUNITY GAP
Friday, July 29th, 2011Originally published in What’s Possible: The Tides Blog
The recession that was supposed to have ended in 2009 has become a depression for many communities of color. The Pew Research Center’s astounding report “Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks, Hispanics” is the most recent to draw this conclusion. Consider it’s findings. The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households. From 2005 to 2009, inflation-adjusted median wealth fell by 66% among Hispanic households and 53% among black households, compared with just 16% among white households. This is the biggest racial wealth divide this country has seen in the past 25 years. This wasn’t the first news story to highlight the problem. Just a few weeks ago, Jesse Washington’s Associated Press article on the shrinking Black middle class was carried in every major newspaper in the country. …
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MAYA WILEY QUOTED IN AP ARTICLE ON BLACK RECESSION
Thursday, July 7th, 2011Maya Wiley, Executive Director of the Center for Social Inclusion, was quoted in an article on the black recession by Jesse Washington, National Writer on Race and Ethnicity for the Associated Press.
Black economic gains reversed in Great Recession
by Jesse Washington, Associated Press
July 6, 2011
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Growing up black in the segregated 1960s, Deborah Goldring slept two to a bed, got evicted from apartment after apartment, and watched her stepfather climb utility poles to turn their disconnected lights back on. Yet Goldring pulled herself out of poverty and earned a middle-class life — until the Great Recession.
First, Goldring’s husband fell ill, and they drained savings to pay for nursing homes before he died. Then Goldring lost her executive assistant job in the Baltimore hospital where she had worked for 17 years. The cruelest blow was a letter from the bank, intending to foreclose …
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