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Register to attend and learn more about The Rise and Fall of The Freedman&rsquo\;s Bank\, And Its Lasting Socio- Economic Impact on Black America. \;This will be a 45 minute conv ersation followed by Q&\;A\, and book signing. First fifty registrants of the event will receive a complimentary book courtesy of the DC Public L ibrary Foundation. You can learn more about the book and author below.

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For reasonable accommodations\, please contact the Center for Accessibility at 202-727-2142 or DCPLaccess@dc.gov. For ASL or tactile in terpretation\, please allow at least seven (7) days notice.

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About the Book

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Read the story of the bank\, created after the Civil War\, tha t was supposed to help Black people newly freed from slavery build wealth and gain financial acumen. But those former slaves lost everything when th e bank collapsed less than a decade later under the weight of corruption a nd deception by its all white\, all male board\, incompetence and an inter national financial crisis. &ldquo\;Not even ten additional years of slaver y could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mi smanagement and bankruptcy of the series of savings banks chartered by the Nation for their especial aid\,&rdquo\; wrote W.E.B. Du Bois in his class ic book\, &ldquo\;The Souls of Black Folk.&rdquo\;

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About the Author

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Ro dney A. Brooks writes on retirement and wealth and health inequit ies. His retirement columns appear in U. News &\; World Report and AARP &rsquo\;s Senior Planet. He has also written retirement columns for The Wa shington Post and USA TODAY and is a contributor to National Geographic\, Next Avenue\, Forbes and The Washington Post. He is author of the new book \, The Rise and Fall of the Freedman&rsquo\;s Bank and It&rsquo\;s Lasting Socio-Economic Impact on Black America. He is also author of the book\, F ixing the Racial Wealth Gap: Racism and Discrimination Put Us Here\, But T his Is How We Can Save Future Generations. The book was a winner of the Na tional Association of Black Journalists&rsquo\; (NABJ) Outstanding Book Aw ard in 2022 and also made the shortlist for the Society for Advancing Busi ness Editing and Writing (SABEW) Third Annual Best in Business Book Awards . He was a winner of the SABEW Best in Business Awards for his story in Ca pital &\; Main on the widening racial wealth. He also was a finalist fo r 2021 Dateline Awards competition by the Washington D.C. Chapter of the S ociety of Professional Journalists and a finalist for National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Awards in 2018. A recipient of the President&rsquo\;s Award from the National Association of Black Journa lists\, he was elected to the NABJ Hall of Fame in 2021. He was named a Se nior Fellow at Prosperity Now in 2022. He is co-author of Retirement Plann ing Essentials: A Guide to Living Well Without Running out of Money\, publ ished in 2018. He is also author of the E-Book Is One Million Dollars Enou gh: A Guide to Planning for and Living Through a Successful Retirement. He has testified before the U.S. Senate Special Committee Aging on challenge s facing Black Americans\, particularly women\, in retirement. Brooks was Deputy Managing Editor/Money and retirement columnist for USA TODAY before he retired in 2015 after 30 years. Previously he was assistant business e ditor and reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has also worked as a r eporter or editor for The Bulletin in Philadelphia\, the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times and the Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal. He serves on the Foolproof Fo undation&rsquo\;s Walter Cronkite Committee\, an organization dedicated to teaching financial literacy in public schools. He served two terms as tre asurer and a member of the executive board of the NABJ. He currently serve s as chairman for of the NABJ Finance Committee. Born in Baltimore\, Maryl and and raised in Newark and Linden\, N.J.\, Brooks received a B.S. degree from Cornell University and an executive certificate in financial plannin g from Georgetown University.

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In Conversation with

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Vanessa \;Williams is a longtime journalist who recently retired from daily journalism after 27 years at The Washingto n Post. Williams covered local and national government and politics for Th e Post\, focusing on voters and candidates of color. Williams \;mentor ed dozens of young journalists at The Post and other news organizations. & nbsp\;Before joining The Post\, Williams spent 12 years as a reporter and writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer. While in the City of Brotherly Love\, Williams served several years on the board of the Philadelphia Associatio n of Black Journalists\, including as president. Williams\, who attended h er first NABJ conference in 1983\, while she was a reporter at her hometow n newspaper\, The St. Petersburg Times\, now the Tampa Bay Times. She join ed the board of NABJ in the late 1980s\, serving as regional director\, se cretary and Vice President. In 1997\, she was elected president. She lives in Washington\, DC.

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