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Joint Center 2010 Annual Dinner Photos

Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee spoke at a March 16, 2010 webinar hosted by the NCSL, The Benefits of Broadband for Rural and Low-Income Families.

FCC Chairman Genachowski and Commissioners Clyburn and Copps frame debate on Open Internet at MTI Forum March 3, 2010.

Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee hosts a Media and Technology Institute Forum Feb. 25, 2010, on growing broadband adoption among minorities

Dr. Wilhelmina Leigh was a guest on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" on December 15 as part of a discussion about homeownership levels among people of color and how they have been affected by the mortgage crisis.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson was the speaker when the Commission to Engage African Americans on Climate Change met Sept. 23, 2009 [Photo gallery].

August 18 - 31, 2010

Washington’s Whitewashed Social Security Review, colorlines.com

Meek Prevails in U.S. Senate Primary, Black Enterprise

Are Voters Really Moving Beyond Race?, cqpolitics.com

Civil rights activists recall summer of change, clarionledger.com

National and Local Groups Host D.C. Candidates Forum at Dr. Dorothy I. Height Building, PR Newswire

Congresswoman Christensen Convenes Health Equity Leadership Commission, American Chronicle, Virgin Islands Daily News

HPI News

Report Analyzes Implications for Health Inequities of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Joint Center Announces Two Appointments
to Climate Change Commission

Experts Call for Coordinating and Focusing Climate Change Strategies to Reduce Impact on Children and Other Vulnerable Communities

Former Congressman J.C. Watts Joins Joint Center’s Board of Governors

Joint Center Convenes Experts on “Climate Change, Human Health and the Well-Being of Vulnerable Communities”

Joint Center Announces Two Appointments
to Climate Change Commission

Climate Change Initiative Fact Sheet

Commission to Engage African Americans on Climate Change

Critical Issues in Climate Change
Speakers Series

Climate Change, Human Health and the
Well-Being of Vulnerable Communities
(July 2010)

Agenda and Bios

Breathing Easier: Community-based Strategies to Prevent Asthma

Connecting people and place: a new
framework for reducing urban vulnerability
to extreme heat

Framework flow chart

Children: First and Worst Hit by Climate Change

For more information about the Climate Change Commission,
please click here.

Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee spoke at a March 16, 2010 webinar hosted by the NCSL, The Benefits of Broadband for Rural and Low-Income Families.

Broad Spectrum of Organizations Endorse FCC’s Broadband Adoption Recommendations: Press Release

March 3 OIF Proceedings

March 9 Letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.

March 10 Letter to FCC from Black Elected Officials

April 26 Letter to FCC from OIF

- The webcast archive is here.

- Twitter hashcode #jcmtioiforum.

In the Wake of Health Reform: What’s Next to Achieve Health Equity?, BlackPressUSA.com, The Community Times Dispatch

Segregation blamed for health disparities, high costs: Boosting education key to solving these problems, says policy expert Brian Smedley, malive.com

In the Wake of Health Reform: What’s Next to Achieve Health Equity?, blackpressusa.com

Early Diagnoses of the New Law, New York Times article and participant photos.

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Did You Know?

Did you know that more than two-fifths (42 percent) of African Americans surveyed in a October-November 2005 Joint Center survey expect that their own retirement savings and investments will be their major source of income in retirement? However, only 51 percent have any money in savings accounts, certificates of deposit, or money market funds. Furthermore, only 16 percent have money invested in bonds, only 31 percent have investments in stocks or mutual fund shares, and only 24 percent have an IRA or Keogh plan