Annual DuBois Institute Forum Tackles Black Joblessness: This past Thursday, Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute convened its annual Hutchins Forum on Martha’s Vineyard that featured a panel of economists and other experts exploring the joblessness crisis in the African-American community. Among those joining moderator Charlayne Hunter-Gault were Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., the director of the Du Bois Institute and TheRoot.com editor-in-chief; Dr. Roland G. Fryer Jr., a Harvard University economist; and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers.
TheRoot.com reported that more than 200 people, including scholars and celebrities, attended the forum at the Old Whaling Church in the Edgartown section of the Martha’s Vineyard island.
Harvard’s Fryer focused his attention of the state of education for Black and Latino children.
