The 30th Anniversary Membership Drive
On October 25, we go live from Las Vegas.
Media Specialist C.R. (Ceci) Toliver, President & CEO of Lacquered Images, launches the Membership Drive live on Hit USA Radio, hosted by Radical Allen & Michael Wright of Hit USA Radio. That evening, the Committee appears in the audience at the Motown Extreme Review.
Tap the link, then tap Tune In Now on the Hit USA Radio page to hear the broadcast.
C.R. (Ceci) Toliver
President & CEO of Lacquered Images
Media Specialist C.R. (Ceci) Toliver takes the 30th Anniversary Membership Drive live on Hit USA Radio from Las Vegas — alongside the Committee’s own members and guests in the room.
Join the conversation live on October 25.
- Call into the show
- Post your comments
- Ask your questions
- Tell your story
The lines, the comments and the questions are open to everyone. However you take part, your voice joins the record.
Listen on Hit USA RadioTap the link, then tap Tune In Now on the Hit USA Radio page to hear the broadcast.The drive goes live in
October 25, 2026
One day, on the air and in the room.
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
The drive goes live on air
C.R. (Ceci) Toliver, President & CEO of Lacquered Images launches the 30th Anniversary Membership Drive live on Hit USA Radio, broadcasting from Las Vegas. Hosts Radical Allen & Michael Wright of Hit USA Radio carry the conversation through the day — and the lines are open to you.
Throughout the broadcast
Why membership matters
Members are what make the work possible: the grassroots survey, the public dialogues, and the research that lets independent entities act on what residents actually say. The drive is where that work gets funded and staffed.
That evening
In the audience, in the room
The Committee will also appear in the audience at the Motown Extreme Review in Las Vegas — listening, gathering, and marking the anniversary in the company of the community.
Who launches the drive
C.R. (Ceci) Toliver
President & CEO of Lacquered Images
C.R. “Ceci” Toliver is the Committee’s Media Specialist and the voice that opens the 30th Anniversary Membership Drive. She is President & CEO of Lacquered Images, and it was her sharing of this project that brought it to a former radio colleague — and then to national radio in Las Vegas, where the drive goes live on October 25.
On October 25, 2026, C.R. (Ceci) Toliver launches the Membership Drive live on Hit USA Radio, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., broadcasting from Las Vegas, Nevada — hosted by Radical Allen & Michael Wright of Hit USA Radio.
Meet the host
Michael “Radical Allen” Wright of Hit USA Radio
Radio personality · Program director · Entrepreneur
Michael “Radical Allen” Wright is a radio personality, program director, and entrepreneur. He knew from childhood that he wanted to be on the radio, and first got on the air at eighteen. Over his career he has worked alongside radio icons such as Doug Banks, Herb Kent, LaDonna Tittle, Marv Dyson, and Elroy Smith.
In 2002 he started his own station, WGCR.FM — Why God Created Radio — which later became Hit USA Radio. He moved into internet radio in 2016 to reach a global audience beyond AM and FM, and in 2019 partnered with TW Marketing Agency, growing Hit USA Radio to a digital footprint of more than one million users across Instagram and Facebook. The station is known for diverse programming that reaches past today’s top 40 into classic hip-hop, neo-soul, rhythm and blues, jazz, and old school music.
On October 25, 2026, Michael carries the 30th Anniversary Membership Drive live on Hit USA Radio, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., from Las Vegas — the lines open to everyone.
Listen on Hit USA RadioTap the link, then tap Tune In Now on the Hit USA Radio page to hear the broadcast.Why a membership drive
The survey runs on members, not on noise.
The Committee is a project of The Institute on Economic Apartheid, a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank. Its work is to gather — testimony by testimony, block by block — the grassroots evidence of how affordability, safety, healthcare, childcare, and housing costs fall differently depending on race, sex, gender, and socioeconomic status.
Members are what make that possible: businesses, agencies, organizations, jurisdictions, individuals, and institutions who put their name behind the survey and take it into their own communities. October 25 is the day we ask a wider public to join them — and, over the long term, to build the coalition this work is meant to serve.
How to take part
Three ways to stand with the 30th anniversary.
Tune in & join in
Listen live on Hit USA Radio between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Call into the show, post your comments, ask your questions, and tell your story while the drive is on the air.
Become a member
Add your name — as an individual, a business, an agency, an organization, a school, a jurisdiction, or an institution — and tell us how you would like to contribute.
Carry the message
Take the 250 Years: Let’s Talk About It! message into your own community with a cap, a mug, a tote, or a tee.
Be counted
Sign up for the October 25 Membership Drive.
Free, and it takes a minute. Tell us who you are, and we’ll send you the listening details ahead of the broadcast along with how to take part in the survey.
Open Enrollment
The Membership Drive launches October 25, 2026 and stays open. Enrollment runs from October 25 through December 31, 2026. Membership materials and any store purchases will arrive in January 2027.
250 Years: Let’s Talk About It!
Pull up the radio on October 25 and be counted.
Call into the show, post your comments, ask your questions, and tell your story — live, from wherever you are.
Listen on Hit USA RadioTap the link, then tap Tune In Now on the Hit USA Radio page to hear the broadcast.Hosted by Radical Allen & Michael Wright of Hit USA Radio