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Racial Wealth Gap
May 5, 2022
Dania Francis
,
Darrick Hamilton
,
Thomas Mitchell
,
Nathan Rosenberg
,
Bryce Wilson Stucki
How the Government Helped White Americans Steal Black Farmland
There was once a thriving Black middle class based on farm ownership. But during the twentieth century, the USDA helped erase that source of wealth.
August 6, 2021
Grace Segers
Cory Booker Wants Baby Bonds in the Budget Reconciliation Bill
The proposal would help close the racial wealth gap by giving every child in America up to $2,000 annually in a savings account.
April 19, 2021
Magazine
Ryann Liebenthal
The Long Fight to Cancel Student Loans
How student debtors took a radical idea to the mainstream
September 28, 2020
J.C. Pan
Big Banks Cratered the Economy. Now They Swear They’ll Fix It.
What do we make of Citigroup and other banks’ racial and economic justice initiatives?
September 22, 2020
Magazine
Adolph Reed Jr.
TV Race Fables and the Privilege of a Raging Class
“The Cosby Show,” “#blackAF,” and the misleading fixation on the “racial wealth gap”
June 5, 2020
Casey Taylor
Nihilism and White Bliss in America’s Most Livable City
On Pittsburgh, the canonization of Mario Lemieux, and stories white progressives like to tell
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