The New York Times, June 18, 2020: ‘Banking While Black’: How Cashing a Check Can Be a Minefield
Clarice Middleton shook with fear as she stood on the sidewalk outside a Wells Fargo branch in Atlanta one December morning in 2018. Moments earlier, she had tried to cash a $200 check, only to be accused of fraud by three branch employees, who then called 911.
Middleton, who is Black, remembers thinking: “I don’t want to die.”
