Prominent individual success stories can create an impression that the Great Migration brought widespread and lasting Black economic liberation. But did it?
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My immigrant parents are still running the small-town corner store they bought half a century ago. I’m left to pick up the shattered pieces of their dream.
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This article was co-produced and co-published with the Nonprofit Quarterly. The United States is a country built on the genocide and taking of land of Indigenous peoples, as well as turning enslaved Africans into the private wealth of White citizens. This has created a nation whose riches are highly concentrated among White Americans. Even after landmark
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The idea and identity of whiteness in America has long been constructed, remodeled and refitted. Used as a tool to exclude and oppress, to be identified as White was, and is, a way to gain access to privileges.
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The actions announced today are a downpayment on equitable investments in communities, expanded funding for affordable housing, the removal of barriers that have blocked equitable development, and the opportunity to participate in the federal procurement process.
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While Greenwood (aka the Black Wall Street) was literally set to flames in 1921, the veiled injustices that Black small businesses fight today are equally cruel and threaten not only the economic well being of Black people but the culture and history of Black neighborhoods.
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President Obama promised to use the president’s power to increase opportunity for all Americans, regardless of race or class. Despite this promise, little to no progress was made in bridging Black/White inequality in wealth, income and homeownership.
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In about 400 pages, “From Here To Equality” reviews the political history of the Black reparations movement, the effects of slavery on the nation’s development and the ongoing failure of the country to take action to bridge racial economic inequality. It also outlines a program for Black reparations.
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An individual’s well-being and long-term financial sustainability is derived from the ability to build and acquire assets, such as savings, homes, cars or businesses. Around 55% of Americans live in asset-poverty which means they lack sufficient wealth to sustain a livelihood above the poverty level for at least 3 months.
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Over 44 million immigrants live in the United States, comprising about 13% of the population. Immigration to the U.S. has long been a topic of debate: who can come, under what conditions and when?
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Richard Rothstein outlines what’s necessary to reproach residential segregation in NCRC’s Just Economy Series.
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We are living in an intense time, a time where public policy failures and social inequality are revealing themselves at a level that was hidden by a relatively strong economy.
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There are nearly 50 million African Americans in the U.S. today. Though the African American population continues to rise, their share of the nation’s wealth isn’t keeping up, according to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s recent African American Racial Wealth Divide Snapshot.
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Proper implementation of Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act would reveal who is receiving small business loans and where they are located.
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With the holiday shopping season going into overdrive, it is important to pay tribute to Native Americans. Now when we say to pay tribute, we literally mean pay, with money, by making purchases from Native American small businesses.
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