While set decades ago in Yonkers, New York, the true story dramatized in HBO’s new miniseries Show Me a Hero is timely. Airing just months after a historic Supreme Court decision on fair housing and new regulations from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the miniseries reminds us how long Americans have fought over race, class, and space.
On Sunday, September 27, the Urban Institute screened a segment of Show Me a Hero and discussed housing segregation and policies used to combat it with HUD secretary Julián Castro, Show Me a Hero producer David Simon, and other fair housing experts.
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Welcome:
- Sarah Rosen Wartell, president, Urban Institute
- Clayton LeBouef, actor, Show Me a Hero
Screening:
- Segment of Show Me a Hero
Discussion:
- Julián Castro, secretary, US Department of Housing and Urban Development
- David Simon, executive producer and writer, Show Me a Hero, HBO
- James Perry, former executive director, New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center
- Margery Austin Turner, senior vice president for program planning and management, Urban Institute
- Moderator: Sarah Rosen Wartell, president, Urban Institute
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This event is produced in partnership with Michon Boston Group, LTD. For inquiries regarding this event, please contact Ivy Hunter at [email protected].
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