Author Talk Back: The Color of Law

Become a #CivicPatron and join us for a live conversation with the author of our first #CivicBookClub pick.

Our first book is The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. In order to reform laws and policy it is important to learn how the system was designed, learn how it operates and understand its flaws.​ The Color of Law gives a detailed and historical view of the discriminatory laws and housing policies enacted on the local, state and federal level that continue even to this day.​The author Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Haas Institute at the University of California-Berkeley. He is a leading authority on housing policy and the book is essential reading for understanding housing policy in the United States. Mr. Rothstein will be a guest on #SundayCivics next week and if you are a #CivicPatron you can join us live for the conversation and contribute to the interview. Becoming a patron is super easy and you chose what level of support you want to give starting out as little as $3 a month.