Join Boise Regional REALTORS® for a webinar that explores Newsday’s Peabody Award-winning investigation, Long Island Divided, and its documentary film, Testing the Divide. Webinar attendees will learn from Bill Dedman – one of the lead reporters on Newsday’s three-year investigation.
The investigation, published in November 2019, revealed that Long Island’s dominant residential real estate brokerages helped reinforce racial segregation through illegal steering of customers. Newsday’s team received several national awards for their work, including a Peabody Award.
The webinar will take place on Tuesday, December 14th from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. (MT). If you’re a brokerage who wants more information and is interested in providing the webinar to your REALTORS®, contact BRR Director of Education, Emily Archer.
The following questions will be discussed:
How were the tests conducted?
What were the major findings?
How can agents avoid steering?
Can agents talk about schools?
How can agents ensure fair treatment?
Bill Dedman is a Pulitzer and Peabody award-winning investigative reporter, bestselling author, and keynote speaker. He has spoken on fair housing and fair lending issues to the National Association of REALTORS®, the Federal Reserve, HUD, and banking and real estate associations.
Bill received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for his work at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on The Color of Money, his series on racial discrimination by banks and savings and loan associations in middle-income Black neighborhoods.
Thirty years later, Bill was one of four lead reporters on Newsday’s undercover investigation of racial steering by real estate agents, Long Island Divided.
Bill has reported for The Associated Press, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe.
Bill Dedman
Contact BRR Director of Education, Emily Archer, with any questions!
