Leaders in education, tech, government and business will host a virtual forum on Tuesday on black entrepreneurship and the future of jobs in the African American community.
"New Jobs Forum" is set for 4 p.m. -7 p.m. Tuesday. The event is a collaboration between RadioOne, Morehouse College, Opportunity HUB and Momentum Learning and will feature panelists such as Georgia Cong. Hank Johnson, actress Keisha Knight Pulliam, Morehouse College President David Thomas and Rodney Sampson, chairman and CEO of OHUB.
Organizers point to several factors that prompted the need for the forum, including the impact of the coronavirus on job losses in the black workforce, the role automation may play in furthering those losses and income inequality and the impact it will have on impairing African American income growth and generational wealth.
The forum will also include discussion on retraining and skills growth with a look at Morehouse's recently launched "Software Engineering Summer Semester," which is geared toward helping workers displaced by coronavirus learn to new skills.
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