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Rising Leaders Rising African American Leaders: Challenges for a New Generation

On April 20, 2005, the Joint Center, with support from the AT&T Foundation, hosted a town hall meeting entitled "Rising African American Leaders: Challenges for a New Generation." In a lively and thought-provoking discussion moderated by Joe Madison, the eight panelists agreed that while conditions have significantly improved, racism still permeates our institutions and rising African American leaders confront far more complex challenges than their white counterparts.

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As of December 31, 2006, 3,000 U.S. service members had been killed fighting in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The overwhelming majority (86.8 percent) of the fatalities came from the nation’s middle-income communities (zip codes with median household incomes between $30,000 and $100,000). Learn more