Is Dialogue Enough to Bridge Racial Divides?
Changing attitudes only goes so far when there are inequitable policies in place, one organizer learned.
By
Lennon Flowers
| February 1, 2021
In 2017, a USA Today article named Erie, Pennsylvania, the worst place in the country for African Americans to live, citing high unemployment among the city’s Black population, and a 57% lower median income compared to the city’s white households.
Dr. Michael Fisher and Rev. Jennifer Bailey at an early People's Supper event at Vanderbilt University in 2017.
Folks from Erie Insurance, the city’s lone Fortune 500 company, reached out to our team at The People’s Supper to see if we could help. They wanted to convene a dialogue series to understand the truths behind that ranking, brainstorm solutions, “and begin to build trust.”