Where's Our Bailout?

Dr. Julianne Malveaux, president of Bennett College in Greensboro, N.C., discusses racial disparities in the American economy and questions why a federal government that rushed to bail out large financial institutions has not done the same to hard-hit, long-depressed communities. She agrees with the theme of an advertising campaign by the Institute for America's Future that calls for "a debate worthy of a great nation in trouble." She was a featured speaker Sept. 18, 2008, at the release in Washington of an Economic Policy Institute report on the economic plight of African Americans. (Flip Video courtesy of the Voter Genome Project.)