This webinar will explore the historic dimensions of the exploitation of Black labor, the forces at work to keep it suppressed, and the heroic resistance of Black workers in their fight for economic justice.

This webinar is a part of the 2025 Brown School Black History Month Programming.

Presenter:
Mr. Malik Ahmed has been a pioneer in the field of community development for over the past 50 years. In 1983, he established one of the most effective outcome-based community development organizations- Better Family Life, Inc.-serving the St. Louis metropolitan area. Better Family Life also has chapters in four additional American cities. He holds a B.A. degree in Economic and M.S. in Policy Analysis, along with a certificate of completion from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Ahmed is the author of the Book “From the Projects to the Pyramids: in Search of a Better Family Life”, published in 2019.

This webinar will explore the historic dimensions of the exploitation of Black labor, the forces at work to keep it suppressed, and the heroic resistance of Black workers in their fight for economic justice.

This webinar is a part of the 2025 Brown School Black History Month Programming.

Presenter:
Mr. Malik Ahmed has been a pioneer in the field of community development for over the past 50 years. In 1983, he established one of the most effective outcome-based community development organizations- Better Family Life, Inc.-serving the St. Louis metropolitan area. Better Family Life also has chapters in four additional American cities. He holds a B.A. degree in Economic and M.S. in Policy Analysis, along with a certificate of completion from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Ahmed is the author of the Book “From the Projects to the Pyramids: in Search of a Better Family Life”, published in 2019.