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Unfair property assessments lead to widespread overtaxation of black Americans’ homes

These proposals only scratch the surface of possible reforms. But they illustrate both the difficulty of eliminating the Black-white wealth gap, as well as the many ways policy could help reduce the gap.

Entrepreneurs are working on new business models to address income inequality and a resulting lack of access to the financial system for communities of color.

The private equity industry, which has led to more than 1.3 million job losses in the last decade, reveals the truth about free markets.

“Reports have shown people of color and minority- and women-owned businesses struggle to access credit and this is especially true during a global pandemic,” Superintendent Linda A. Lacewell said in a statement.

The history of parks and public lands is largely anti-Black, discriminatory, and disturbing. The creation of many of these places caused the forced displacement of Native Nations, which we have failed to reconcile centuries later.

Structural racism persisted despite all the ‘good intentions,’ community advocates say

So those boosted unemployment checks have created a bizarre distortion in the labor market, where holding on to a job doesn’t guarantee being financially better off than losing one.

It’s time to try baby bonds.

George Floyd’s death, countless other deaths from over-policing, and the whipping post in Georgetown remind all Americans how unequal treatment under the law isn’t a new trend by any means; it’s been around for centuries.

‘Systemic racism’ conveys the pervasiveness of racial oppression, but white supremacy goes further by indicating that there is a rigid nexus of power that protects and enforces it.

Music manager Daniel Carter started Buy Back the Block to fight gentrification and help South L.A. residents move from renting to buying as novel coronavirus and recession disproportionately affect Black neighborhoods.

The philanthropy’s new focus on programs that promote social justice will include a plan to provide book collections for 1,000 prisons.

The money will have “a tremendous impact” in black communities, said Bill Bynum, Hope’s C.E.O. “Pound for pound, no entity has a bigger impact” than a community lender, he said, pointing to a greater ability to lend to small businesses and aspiring homeowners.

Camargo said Black and brown-led nonprofits have trouble accessing capital because the predominantly white network of funders doesn’t want to take a risk on organizations led by people of color.