The economic recession has been particularly punishing for the employment prospects for African-American men. And two experts on the subject offer their perspectives on the causes of – and potential solutions to – the staggering rate of unemployment among black men.
One is Rodney D. Green, the executive director of the Center for Urban Progress in Washington. Dr. Green is also the chairman of the Department of Economics at Howard University. The other is Roderick Harrison, a senior fellow at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, one of the nation’s premier research and public policy institutions.
The show will be broadcast on Wednesday, Feb. 3, at 5 p.m. Jonathan Hicks, a DBC senior fellow and former political reporter for The New York Times, is the show’s host.
The program also includes an interview with Marcus Cederqvist, the executive director of the New York City Board of Elections. The Board recently chose new electronic voting machines that will be used for the first time in this year’s September primary elections. In making the change, New York City will become one of the last places in the country to abandon lever-operated voting machines.
And Urban Focus continues to look the conditions in Haiti following the earthquake. It includes an interview with Jean-Max Hogarth, a physician who is a partner in First Colonies Anesthesia Associates, a Maryland-based health care concern. Dr. Hogarth recently returned from Haiti, where he treated victims of the earthquake.
The show’s host is Jonathan Hicks, a DBC senior fellow and former political reporter for The New York Times who recently traveled to West Africa and reported from both Liberia and Nigeria. His reports can be found on DBC’s blog, at http://duboisbunche.org/call-and-response/.
Urban Focus is broadcast every Wednesday from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. It is broadcast nation-wide via the Internet at http://streaming.intacs.com/clients/medgarevers. In Brooklyn, the program will be aired on BCAT TV on Channel 70 (Cablevision), Channel 57 (Time Warner), Channel 44 (Verizon) and Channel 84 (RCN). Urban Focus will also be archived on the DuBois Bunche Center’s website, at www.duboisbunche.org.
Through interviews with politicians, policy makers, industry practitioners, scholars and expert analysts, Urban Focus will explore a range of issues that affect underserved communities and communities of color from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to Cape Town, South Africa. The discussions will serve to both draw attention to problems and highlight solutions for issues of concern to these communities.
About Medgar Evers College, CUNY
Medgar Evers College was founded in 1970 through the efforts from educators and community leaders in central Brooklyn. The College is named after Medgar Wiley Evers, a Mississippi-born black civil rights activist who was assassinated on June 12, 1963. The College is divided into four schools: The School of Business; The School of Professional and Community Development; The School of Liberal Arts and Education; and The School of Science, Health, and Technology. Through these Schools, the College offers 29 associate and baccalaureate degree programs, as well as certificate programs in fields such as English, Nursing, and Accounting. Medgar Evers College also operates several co-curricular and external programs and associated centers such as the Male Development and Empowerment Center, the Center for Women’s Development, the Center for Black Literature, and The DuBois Bunche Center for Public Policy.