Equality in Life, part 2: Business and Growth

Our Local Color Project 2019-20 season is made possible by the generous support of Bank of America. As our beloved community joins others around the nation in the important unfinished work to make the promise of equality a reality, constructive conversation helps to illuminate the path to progress and meaningful change.

The Equality in Life series is part of our Local Color Project, made possible by the generous support of Bank of America.

As our beloved Tallahassee/Leon County community joins others around the nation in the important unfinished work to make the promise of equality a reality, constructive conversation helps to illuminate the path to progress and meaningful change. In that spirit, a group of community leaders share diverse perspectives about critical and relevant issues in a special series of Town Hall presentations — presented by The Village Square in partnership with Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida, and Sachs Media Group.

Part 2 in our series focuses on “Equality in Life: Business and Growth,” facilitated by Heidi Otway, President of SalterMitchell PR.

You can view the results of the Sachs Media Group Survey on equality in our hometown here. And please watch this truly extraordinary video (made by local high school students) about poverty in Tallahassee mentioned by Ms. Talethia Edwards during Part 1 of the series.

Mentioned in this program:

• Capital City Black Pages
• Capital City Chamber of Commerce – I Am Black Business Directory
• TEMPO-Tallahassee
• Jane Elliot’s “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” Experiment
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• 13th (the movie)

Programming during the pandemic is made possible by a recovery grant from the Knight Foundation, through the Community Foundation of North Florida and a CARES grant from Florida Humanities with the support of National Endowment for the Humanities. We are deeply grateful for their support.