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As with many aspects of American life, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately impacted BIPOC communities. For Black businesses, this meant closing their doors and for Black workers, either being laid off or made to work in unsafe conditions. In a system where Black workers are proportionally overrepresented in low-wage work and sharply underrepresented in executive positions, this negative impact is exacerbated. However discouraging this reality is, it serves as a call to action to close the wide, possibly widening, racial gap.
At INFORUM, a panel of experts on the economic state of Black America will provide insight on what a path to equal and just recovery looks like, expanding upon research by McKinsey & Company. Further, juxtaposing the current reality with the prosperity offered by a better future, they will drive home the need to make change, and do so quickly.
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Shelley Stewart III
Partner, McKinsey & Company; Co-author, "The economic state of Black America: What is and what could be"
Michael Chui
Partner, McKinsey Global Institute; Co-author, "The economic state of Black America: What is and what could be"
Dr. Kristen E. Broady
Ph.D., Fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution
Jeffery Wallace
CEO and President, LeadersUp
Jennifer Ablan
U.S. Assistant Managing Editor, Financial Times—Moderator