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The Ongoing Toll of Segregation

Sheryll Cashin’s “White Space, Black Hood” shows how economic discrimination combines with racial injustice in America’s housing policy.
by Richard D. Kahlenburg via The New Republic on December 2, 2021
Protest signs from the 1963 March on Washington

A Federal Job Guarantee: The Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Movement

The 1963 March on Washington put a government guarantee to a job at the front of the civil rights agenda. It’s long past time to complete the work.
by Ayanna Pressley, David Stein via The Nation on September 2, 2021
Janet Robinson and Yolanda Grayson King inside Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church

In Virginia, a Historic Black Neighborhood Grapples With Whether to Grow

Some in The Settlement, founded by formerly enslaved people, say development should be allowed to create generational Black wealth while others disagree.
by Antonio Olivo via Washington Post on July 18, 2021
Haiti Building at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893. Photo courtesy of the Chicago History Museum.

The Chicago Fire of 1874 and the World’s Columbian Exposition Led to the Formation of the Black Belt

The fire of 1874 destroyed more than 80% of Black-owned property in Chicago. But Black people persisted and built vital cultural traditions and institutions.
by Tonia Hill via The TRiiBE on July 7, 2021
Black employees photographed at St. Luke Penny Savings Bank

The Forgotten Stories of America's Black Wall Streets

A century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, what happened there is finally more widely known—but other "Black Wall Street" stories remain hidden.
by Olivia B. Waxman, Arpita Aneja via TIME on May 28, 2021
Corey Lea, a beef and pork rancher in Murfreesboro, Tenn., who also advocates for Black farmers.
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Black Farmers Have Always Faced Injustice. Will the American Rescue Plan Help?

This plight dates back to the era of slavery.
by David W. Dangerfield via Made By History on April 1, 2021
Cleo Davis and Kayin Talton Davis are artists and activists who have made it their mission to preserve and celebrate African American history in Portland. Here, their daughter, Ifetayo Davis, stands with her father and sisters outside their home.

Oregon Once Legally Banned Black People. Has the State Reconciled its Racist Past?

Oregon became ground zero of America’s racial reckoning protests last summer. But activists say it doesn’t know its own history.
by Nina Strochlic via Process: A Blog for American History on March 8, 2021
An illustration of Black men pulling a platform covered in trash and American symbols.

What Price Wholeness?

A new proposal for reparations for slavery raises three critical questions: How much does America owe? Where will the money come from? And who gets paid?
by Shennette Garrett-Scott via New York Review of Books on January 18, 2021
An illustration of boats in the water.

Capitalism, Slavery, and Economic White Supremacy

On the racial wealth gap.
by Calvin Schermerhorn via CARICOM on December 21, 2020

The Real History of Race and the New Deal

Material benefits trumped FDR's terrible civil rights records.
by Matthew Yglesias via Slow Boring on December 11, 2020
cartoon drawing of street with for sale signs in front of every house

The Steal of the Century

How banks ripped off Americans, destroyed Black wealth, and got away with it.
by Matt Bors, Kazimir Lee via The Nib on October 26, 2020

For the First Time, America May Have an Anti-Racist Majority

Not since Reconstruction has there been such an opportunity for the advancement of racial justice.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on September 8, 2020

Cousins Like Us: Black Lives and John Maynard Keynes

Reflections on the famous economist through the prism of the author's own mixed-race family.
by Taylor Beck via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 4, 2020

Americans Are Determined to Believe in Black Progress

Whether it’s happening or not.
by Jennifer A. Richeson via The Atlantic on July 27, 2020
Woman descended from enslaved people sold by Georgetown University.

Our Ancestors Were Sold to Save Georgetown. ‘$400,000 Is Not Going to Do It.’

The school has decided how much money we’re owed in reparations.
by Alexander Stockton via New York Times Op-Docs on February 6, 2020
A Black man with a rifle and woman look out the window at white men with rifles shooting African Americans.

The Massacre of Black Wall Street

In 1921, White rioters destroyed a beacon of Black prosperity and security. This is what happened, and why it still matters today.
by Natalie Chang via The Atlantic on October 20, 2019

America’s Formerly Redlined Neighborhoods Have Changed. So Must Solutions to Rectify Them

Are New Deal-era redlining maps still the best available tools for understanding the racial wealth gap?
by Andre M. Perry, David Harshbarger via Brookings on October 14, 2019

Marijuana Reform Should Focus On Inequality

When regulators dictate who grows a cash crop, they can spread the wealth—or help the rich get richer.
by Sarah Milov via The Atlantic on October 5, 2019
Building with sign reading " Elaine: Motherland of Civil Rights"

Arkansas' Phillips County Remembers the Racial Massacre America Forgot

The recent commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the bloody Elaine Massacre sought to correct the historical record and start hard conversations.
by Olivia Paschal via Facing South on October 4, 2019

The Great Land Robbery

The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on August 12, 2019
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How African American Land Was Stolen in the 20th Century

Between 1910 and 1997, black farmers lost about 90% of the land they owned.
by Steve Hochstadt via HNN on July 30, 2019
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The Brothers Who Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave Their Family's Land

Their great-grandfather had bought the land a hundred years earlier, when he was a generation removed from slavery.
by Lizzie Presser via ProPublica on July 15, 2019
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Paying for the Past: Reparations and American History

Reparations for African-Americans has been a hot topic on the presidential campaign trail, but the debate goes back centuries.
via BackStory on May 24, 2019
Elder M. Andrew Robinson-Gaither demonstrates for reparations for slavery.
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The Centuries-Long Fight for Reparations

And how black activists won the support of Democratic candidates.
by Ana Lucia Araujo via Made By History on April 28, 2019
LBJ at his desk writing.

A Brief History of Slavery Reparation Promises

Several 2020 presidential candidates have called for reparations for slavery in the U.S.
by John Torpey via The Conversation on April 11, 2019

Segregated by Design

The forgotten history of how our governments unconstitutionally segregated this country.
by Richard Rothstein, Mark Lopez via Silkworm Studio on April 5, 2019

White Southerners' Wealth After the Civil War

What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tells us about how wealth is really handed down.
by Andrew Van Dam via Washington Post on April 4, 2019

Making Good on the Broken Promise of Reparations

Ignoring the moral imperative of repairing slavery's wounds because it might be “divisive” reinforces a myth of white innocence.
by Katherine Franke via New York Review of Books on March 18, 2019
Martin Luther King Junior in a picket line wearing a sign that reads "employees on strike for a living wage."

Martin Luther King Jr., Union Man

Most people think of Martin Luther King Jr. as a civil rights leader. What many don’t know is that he also championed labor unionism.
by Peter Cole via The Conversation on January 18, 2019

How Real Estate Segregated America

Real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy—to the detriment of African Americans.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via Dissent on October 2, 2018
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