The 30th Anniversary Membership Drive
On October 25, the drive went live from Las Vegas.
Media Specialist C.R. (Ceci) Toliver, President & CEO of Lacquered Images, launched the Membership Drive on Hit USA Radio, broadcast from Las Vegas, hosted by Radical Allen & Michael Wright of Hit USA Radio. That evening, the Committee appeared in the audience at the Motown Extreme Review.
The broadcast has aired. The drive has not closed — enrollment stays open through December 31, 2026.
C.R. (Ceci) Toliver
President & CEO of Lacquered Images
Media Specialist C.R. (Ceci) Toliver took the 30th Anniversary Membership Drive to Hit USA Radio from Las Vegas — alongside the Committee’s own members and guests in the room.
October 25, 2026
One day, on the air and in the room.
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
The drive opened on the air
C.R. (Ceci) Toliver, President & CEO of Lacquered Images launched the 30th Anniversary Membership Drive on Hit USA Radio, broadcast from Las Vegas, with Radical Allen & Michael Wright of Hit USA Radio carrying the conversation through the afternoon.
Through 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 also appeared in the audience at the Motown Extreme Review in Las Vegas — listening, gathering, and marking the anniversary in the company of the community.
In the press
The station wrote about the day.
The launch was covered in Hit USA Radio’s business blog — an outside account of the Membership Drive going live in Las Vegas, kept here alongside the Committee’s own record of October 25.
Who launched 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 opened 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 went live on October 25.
On October 25, 2026, C.R. (Ceci) Toliver launched the Membership Drive on Hit USA Radio, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., broadcast from Las Vegas, Nevada — hosted by Radical Allen & Michael Wright of Hit USA Radio.
Who hosted the broadcast
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 hosted the 30th Anniversary Membership Drive on Hit USA Radio, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., broadcast from Las Vegas.
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. The drive was the day the Committee asked 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.
Join the Coalition
Add your name — as an individual, a business, an agency, an organization, a school, a jurisdiction, or an institution — and tell the Committee how you would like to contribute. Enrollment runs through December 31, 2026.
Share the record
Pass the site along to someone who should be in this conversation. The more people who know about the survey, the further it reaches.
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
Add your name to the 30th Anniversary drive.
Free, and it takes a minute. Tell the Committee who you are, and it will be in touch with how to take part in the survey. Enrollment stays open through December 31, 2026.
Open Enrollment
The Membership Drive launched 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!
The broadcast is behind the Committee. The enrollment is still open.
Add your name, and bring the conversation into your own community — through December 31, 2026.