Black History Month is the perfect time to explore important issues related to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Check out all the ways ULI Colorado is engaging in Black History Month:

Our top picks of upcoming events:

1. Black History Month webinar series from the American Bar Association
2. Colorado State University Black History Month programs
3. Online exhibits in celebration of Colorado’s Black History from History Colorado
4. Setting a Policy Agenda for Black Americans webcast from the Brookings Institute

What we are reading, watching, & listening to:

1. NPR will be celebrating Black voices with special programming and episodes from February 1st to March 1^st. Listen here.
2. Celebrating Black History Month with NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series
3. Meet the Man who Created Black History Month on CNN
4. Measuring America’s people, places, & economy with the US Census Bureau
5. Radical Imagination Podcast, hosted by Angela Glover Blackwell of PolicyLink
6. How We Rise, a project from the race, prosperity, and inclusion initiative at the Brookings Institute
7. ULI’s Knowledge Finder site for on demand webinars and original research (use search words “race”, “civil rights”, or “Black Lives Matter”)

In addition, ULI Colorado continues to make progress on our new Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Action Plan. Chaired by Mark Marshall of Rocky Mountain Communities and Jeff Friedman of Hall Estill, our new DEI Action Committee is working to engage diverse youth in mentorship programs like the ACE Mentorship Program, expand our ground-breaking Real Estate Diversity Initiative (REDI), and host programs like the December 2 webinar on equitable development.

Stay tuned for more DEI-related programming coming soon!