Racial Wealth Gap & Reparations
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Black advocates challenge Biden
on reluctance to sign executive
order for reparations commission
The Trio, June 2022
Evanston, Illinois Is the
First City to Offer Reparations
to Black Residents
Reasons to Be Cheerful, June 2022
There’s no freedom
without reparations
Vox, June 2022
A new USDA commission asks
how to end discrimination in farming, but Black farmers are skeptical
USA Today, Feb. 2022
Beyond Equity: Targeted
Universalism and the Closing
of the Racial Wealth Gap
Non Profit Quarterly, Jan. 2022
Black Farmers Still Await Debt
Relief as Lawmakers Resolve Racist Lawsuits
Civil Eats, Dec. 2021
Put Philanthropy on the
Front Lines of Racial Justice.
YES!, Nov. 2021
Racism costs Americans trillions. Biden and the Fed say they’re working to change that.
The Washington Post, Nov. 2021
Unpacking Reparations
Eligibility in California
KQED, March 2022
Narrowing the racial wealth
gap using the EITC and CTC
The Brookings Institute, Feb. 2022
For decades, The Baltimore Sun promoted policies that oppressed Black Marylanders; we are
working to make amends
The Baltimore Sun, Feb. 2022
101 years on, Tulsa Race Massacre survivors and descendants are still fighting for long-delayed justice
Public Radio Tulsa, June 2022
Racial justice coalition demands
that Biden order study of reparations
The Washington Post, May 2022
Harvard Details Its Ties to Slavery
and Its Plans for Redress
The New York Times, April 2022
The New York Times, June 2021
The New York Times, May 2021
The Washington Post, April 2021
Catholic Order Pledges $100 Million to Atone for Slave Labor and Sales
The Washington Post, March 2021
Relief bill is most significant legislation for Black farmers since
The Washington Post, March 2021
Orlando Sentinel, Feb. 2021
Column: Reparations,
apologies and the absurdity of
‘it happened a long time ago’
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 2021
Black and Hispanic Americans
pay twice as much in bank fees
as Whites, survey finds
CNBC, Jan., 2021
The Black-white wealth gap left
Black households more vulnerable
Brookings Institution, Dec. 2020
Closing the racial wealth gap
requires heavy, progressive
taxation of wealth
Brookings Institution, Dec. 2020
Truth and Redistribution
Colorlines, Sept.. 2020
The racial wealth gap is at the
heart of America’s inequality
MarketWatch, July 2020
Redlining’s Legacy of Inequality: $212,000 Less Home Equity, Low Homeownership Rates For
Black Families
Redfin, June 2020
What is Owed
New York Times Magazine, June, 2020
How to Do Reparations Right
The New York Times, June 2020
A Cheap, Race-Neutral Way to
Close the Racial Wealth Gap
The Atlantic, June 2020
One city's reparations program that could offer a blueprint for the nation
The Guardian, Jan. 2020
Simulating How Progressive Proposals Affect the Racial Wealth Gap
Center for American Progress, Aug. 2019
Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail
for Refusing to Leave It.
ProPublica, July 2019
An exclusive look at Cory Booker’s plan to fight wealth inequality:
give poor kids money
Vox, Oct. 2018
The Case for Reparations, The Atlantic 2014
The Atlantic, June 2014
Books
Please buy from a black-owned bookstore (click here for a list), your local independent bookstore, or from the Bookshop link provided.
The Half Has Never Been
Told: Slavery and the Making
of American Capitalism
Edward E Baptist, 2014
The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth
in the Coastal South
Andrew W Kahrl, 2016
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20th Century America
Ira Katznelson, 2006
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from
Identity Politics
George Lipsitz, 2018
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
A. Kirsten Mullen & William A. Darity, 2020
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein, 2017
The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality
Thomas M Shapiro, 2005
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Update
Thomas J. Sugrue, 2014
Race for Profit: How
Banks & the Real Estate
Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, 2019
Watch
Why is We Americans
Amiri Baraka (4.5 min.)
Listen
Into America
Into Reparations with
Nikole Hannah-Jones (24 min.)
Knowledge at Wharton
How Diverse Boards Can Help
Close the Wealth Gap (52 min.)
Other Resources
Action Center on
Race and the Economy
Decolonizing
Wealth Project
Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation
Disparities in Wealth
by Race and Ethnicity
2019 Survey of Consumer Finances
The Federal Reserve
Is Our
Economy Fair?
Giving Gap
Justice for Greenwood
Mayors for a
Guaranteed Income
National African
American Reparations
Commission (NAARC)
Opportunity
Insights
Research Report
Closing the Gaps: Building Black Wealth through Homeownership
Urban Institute
Southern Reparations
Loan Fund
"It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice."