Throughout history, the U.S. and other countries have paid reparations to a wide range of people and groups, for a variety of wrongs. But reparations to…
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S6E5: White Brutality
Throughout the nation’s history, time and again, promising signs of African American progress have been shattered by acts of violence serving the interests of white…
Comments closedS6E4: Whitening the Middle Class
Time and again, the route to upward mobility in American society has been blocked for African Americans. Consider the GI Bill, which provided college education and…
Comments closedS6E3: A Tale of Two Cities
How the Federal Government Promoted Housing Segregation and Thwarted Black Home Ownership Home ownership played an important role in how many Americans built wealth in…
Comments closedS6E2: This Land is My Land
The Racial Wealth Gap’s Roots in Federal Policy The promise of “40 acres and a mule” officially was made in 1865. The U.S. government decided…
Comments closedS6E1: Not So Long Ago
One Nation Under Slavery White households in Boston have a median net worth of about $247,000 dollars. The median net worth of a Black household…
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