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SUMMARY:Race and Place
DESCRIPTION:RACE AND PLACE:\nWHO: Award winning investigative reporter\, gu
 est Debra Kamin to speak to WJC community\nWHAT: A presentation and discus
 sion about Race and Place\, Part II (Part I was our exploration of slavery
  here in Mamaroneck Township)\nBlack homeowners facing racial discriminati
 on in appraisals is a theme Debra Kamin has followed for the past several 
 years. Her NY TIMES pieces on this subject prompted a national conversatio
 n that led President Biden to create a task force on property appraisals.\
 n\nKamin's work appears regularly in The New York Times\, The Wall Street 
 Journal and other periodicals including Variety. For that publication she 
 covered the culture and entertainment desk in Israel having lived there fo
 r close to a decade. She reports on topics as diverse as post genocide Rwa
 nda\, the successful treatment of Autism with Cannabis (the featured cover
  article in TIME\, Travel (Conde Nast magazine) Real Estate (you often see
  her byline when you read "the Hunt' in Sundays' Real Estate section! Her 
 recent article (there will be copies for all) will help us look at systemi
 c racial injustice in housing\, what it looks like today and how it has an
  effect on us all no matter where or how we live.\n\nThe Q&amp\;A will be 
 led by Joan Grangenois-Thomas\, community advocate\, founder of local Read
 /Talk/Act Book Group\, Port Chester Village Trustee and Deputy Director fo
 r U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones.\n\nJoin us at WJC for a Sunday brunch in the A
 ctivity Center.\n\nIn honor of the upcoming Martin Luther King weekend we 
 have an opportunity to learn and think about the history\, inequities\, an
 d still-existing racial discrimination and segregation in housing that run
  deep in Westchester and our nation. Housing was a crucial part of Kings v
 ision for economic justice\, and 53 years after his assassination his hope
 s for fair housing remains unfulfilled. Why? What are the mechanisms that 
 make it so? And what can we do to help change it? Come learn\, find out an
 d be inspired in memory of Dr. King.
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