The Fairmont Conference: Four Decades Later | OLD PARKLAND CONFERENCE

In 1980, the economist Thomas Sowell organized the Black Alternatives Conference, which reporters later dubbed the Fairmont Conference because it was held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. The goal of the Fairmont Conference was to bring together people within the black community who had unorthodox views about addressing social inequality and to showcase those views to a media establishment that too often covered racial controversies as though all blacks thought alike. Glenn Loury, Jason Riley, Ian Rowe, and Shelby Steele discussed how the economic, cultural, and political landscape has changed for blacks since the Fairmont Conference and why they were inspired to mount a similar effort in 2022.
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