A Discussion of the Impact of the Obama Administration's Economic Policy

Franklin Roosevelt was elected US president in 1934, to great fanfare and expectations that he would solve the nation’s economic crisis. By 1935, the administration was working on multiple fronts to address the depression, but the question remained: how much had these initiatives impacted African Americans? A group of scholars and activists gathered at Howard University to address this, a conference called “The New Deal and the Negro.” Fast forward to 2012, and the same question can be revisited by looking at the past three years of the Obama administration. Join panelists