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SOURCE: Bloomberg Equality
3/11/2021
My Family’s Long-Gone Texas Land Shows How Black Wealth Is Won and Lost
by Jacqueline Simmons
A host of the Pay Check podcast introduces a new season that will examine her family's history of landholding in Texas as a lens on the historical roots of the black-white wealth gap.
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SOURCE: Bloomberg
9/21/2020
Look What Has Been Taken From Black Americans
It's difficult to quantify the financial cost to Black Americans of racism and segregation. But the destruction of property and denial of trade by white mobs in Elaine, Arkansas in 1919 was quantified by Ida B. Wells-Barnett; her findings can put the scope of a reparations program into some perspective.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/29/2020
The Government Must Pay People to Stay Home
by Gabriel N. Rosenberg
The earliest effective government responses to epidemic illness in the United States came not in the context of human health, but in the context of livestock.
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