(Originally streamed December 9, 2011)

After the television broadcast the conversation shifted to focus on the economics of buying power in black communities.

Our panel tonight: Phillip Martin, senior reporter, 89.7 WGBH Radio; Rep. Carlos Henriquez, 5th Suffolk District; Latoyia Edwards, anchor, New England Cable News; Earl Martin Phalen, CEO, Reach Out and Read; and Kim McLarin, assistant professor of writing, literature, and publishing, Emerson College.