\u201cBlack Economic Inequality: #RaceMatters"RACEMatters\u201d\n\nGuest:\xa0Dr. Toure F. Reed, Professor of History and Author of\xa0\u201cToward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism\u201d\n\n\xa0Live & Call-In\xa0\xa0Listen or Call \u2013 In (347) 838-9852\n\nDr. Toure Reed is\xa0a fourth generation African American educator and third generation professor. Dr. Reed\u2019s research interests center on race, class, and inequality.\xa0Professor Reed\u2019s research focuses on the impact of race and class ideologies on African American civil rights politics and US public policy .\n\nIn his new book, he examines the fate of poor and working-class African Americans and\xa0contends that the road to a more just society for African Americans and everyone else is obstructed, in part, by a discourse that equates entrepreneurialism with freedom and independence.\n\nOUR COMMON GROUND provides unique and critical informed observation\xa0provoking new ways of thinking; blazing\xa0paths rethink the foundation to EMPOWER Black self, others and communities.