This week’s episode discusses the Racial Wealth Gap. Focus is given to the historical and systemic components as well as discussion on class and Haves vs. Have Nots. We look at what is needed to narrow the gap.
Here are links for resources/articles mentioned in the episode or helped inform this episode:
- Explained | Racial Wealth Gap | FULL EPISODE | Netflix - YouTube
- INSIGHT_Still-Running-Up-Down-Escalators_vF.pdf (duke.edu)
- Racial wealth gap may be a key to other inequities – Harvard Gazette
- Why The Racial Wealth Gap Is So Hard To Close : Planet Money : NPR
- Getting Serious About Closing Racial Wealth Gap Means Looking For New, Large Solutions (forbes.com)
- Top 1% Of U.S. Households Hold 15 Times More Wealth Than Bottom 50% Combined (forbes.com)
Here are resources from our shorter segments:
- Microaggressions: Theme = Denial of Individual Racism or Racial Biases Microagressions (Clean) - YouTube
- WPS: Enslaved People on Confederate Money
- Object of Intrigue: Confederate Currency - Atlas Obscura
- WPS Sample obtained from @abnshark901 http://y.at/shark.ocean.scouts
- In The News:
- Democrats introduce bill to enact term limits for Supreme Court justices | The Hill
- House Republicans All Vote Against Neo-Nazi Probe of Military, Police (newsweek.com)
- Senate NDAA to Pentagon: ‘Immediately’ halt fight against extremism - Roll Call
- Matt Gaetz among 20 Republicans to vote no on anti-trafficking bill (usatoday.com)
- Kenly Town Council closed meeting on police resignations | Raleigh News & Observer (newsobserver.com)
- Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Official Teaser - YouTube
- Black Entrepreneurship: Source of Knowledge Bookstore in Newark, NJ.
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