Join us Tuesday, June 22, 9am-12pm PT / 12pm-3pm ET, for a half-day forum with fair housing advocates and leading race and housing scholars from across the United States for the unveiling of "The Roots of Structural Racism," a groundbreaking new project from the Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley which details just how widespread and harmful racial residential segregation remains today, why it matters, who it impacts, and what can be done to reverse this dangerous trend and promote integration.

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Speakers include Richard Rothstein, author of the best-seller The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America; Lisa Rice, president and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance; Demetria McCain, fair housing advocate and president of the Inclusive Communities Project; Margery Turner, expert on urban policy and neighborhood issues and fellow at the Urban Institute; Ajmel Quereshi, Senior Counsel at the Legal Defense Fund, john a. powell, OBI director and housing expert; Stephen Menendian, OBI assistant director who led the Roots of Structural Racism project; and Samir Gambhir, director of OBI's Equity Metrics program, and co-author of The Roots of Structural Racism project.

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Cosponsors: National Fair Housing Alliance, Race Forward, The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), California Housing Partnership, Urban Displacement Project, UC Berkeley's Geography Dept, UC Berkeley's African American Studies, Fair Housing Advocates of Northern CA, Inclusive Communities Project, National Housing Law Project, Terner Center, the Anti-Discrimination Center