New Lens Presents … Blackonomics: Housing

May 31, 2016 – Segment 1

We begin the show with a preview of an important event happening this Thursday, hosted by New Lens. Blackonomics: Housing is a video screening, panel discussion and poetry event that examines where we live and how it impacts the Black community.

With: Michael “Mike” Wills, Producer and Organizer with New Lens; Michael Scott, Chief Equity Officer, President and Co-Founder of Equity Matters; and Changa Onyango, member of the intentional community building collective that is forming a micro land trust and Executive Director of Community Meditation.

Blackonomics: Housing will take place Thursday June 2nd from 6:30pm- 9pm at the Downtown Cultural Arts Center, 401 N. Howard St. in Baltimore. New Lens is asking anyone who has a reflection, poem, art piece or song about housing to upload it to their Facebook event page. To RSVP or for more info, contactMichael@newlens.info

Written by Marc Steiner

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