As protesters march through our cities, a new study dramatizes that at the heart of our racially fractured society is a hidden system of racial wealth inequalities. The marches in the streets may have been provoked by police conduct in Fergusson and Staten Island. But there is a deeper dream that has been deferred. The […]
racial wealth divide
Overlooking the Racial Wealth Divide
President Obama celebrated the inauguration of his second term on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this January. Just a few weeks later, he delivered his first State of the Union address in the middle of Black History Month. Despite the symbolic and substantive reasons to confront race in the State of the Union Address, the […]
