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White Americans confront legacy of housing discrimination
White Americans confront legacy of housing discrimination
Tony Dokoupil reflects on how his family benefited from government housing policies that were denied to Black Americans. He looks at how those policies contributed to America's wealth gap and asks what should be done about it.
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The author makes the point that after two hundred fifty years of slavery, ninety years of Jim Crow, sixty years of separate but equal, and thirty-five years of racist housing policy that until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
The Making of Ferguson: How Decades of Hostile Policy Created a Powder Keg, by Richard Rothstein
The Making of Ferguson: How Decades of Hostile Policy Created a Powder Keg, by Richard Rothstein
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