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About the Class

2 CE Credits

Pulitzer Prize winner and No. 1 bestselling author Bill Dedman was a lead reporter on the three-year investigation and its documentary, Testing the Divide. Bill developed the methodology for the investigation, recruiting, training, and deploying 25 testers with hidden cameras. 

Bill's solutions-oriented events provide essential information for every agent and broker. He shares:

 • How were the tests conducted?

 • What were the major findings? 

• How do we avoid steering?

 • Can agents talk about schools? 

• How to ensure fair treatment? 

• What new training is available?

About the Instructor:

            Bill Dedman

Credit: David Beyda Studio

Bill Dedman is a Pulitzer and Peabody award‐winning investigative 

reporter, and bestselling author. He has spoken on fair housing and fair 

lending issues for 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. The Color of Money led to 

expanded federal laws on disclosure of loan data, new financing for 

middle‐income homebuyers, and greater awareness of systemic 

discrimination. The articles in The Color of Money are online at 

http://powerreporting.com. 

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. The investigation, published in November 2019, revealed 

that Long Island’s largest residential real estate brokerages help reinforce 

racial segregation through illegal steering of customers. Long Island 

Divided led to a reckoning in the real estate industry, with new national 

training for agents, more testing of brokerages, and new state laws on 

fair housing. Newsday's team received several national awards for their 

work, including a Peabody Award. Long Island Divided and its 40‐minute 

documentary film, Testing the Divide.