Black Land Theft and the Racial Wealth Divide
Over the course of a century, white farmers and landowners developed tax and property law schemes that allowed them to strip African Americans of their land.
What does the racial wealth gap look like when you take the family car out of the equation? Recent data from the Survey of Consumer Finances shows that without consumer durable goods, the middle black family has a net worth of just a few thousand dollars. Antonio Moore breaks down the numbers in a new video.
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Antonio Moore, an attorney based in Los Angeles, is one of the producers of the documentary Freeway: Crack in the System. He has contributed pieces to the Grio, Huffington Post, and Inequality.org on the topics of race, mass incarceration, and economics. Follow on Twitter @Tonetalks
by Tykeisa Nesbitt
Over the course of a century, white farmers and landowners developed tax and property law schemes that allowed them to strip African Americans of their land.
by Dedrick Asante-Muhammad
/by Gerardo Sanchez Herrera Moro
There are better ways to close the racial wealth gap while giving a leg up to Americans of every color.
by Dedrick Asante-Muhammad
/by Connor Sanchez
/by Esha Kamra
Efforts to narrow the racial wealth divide must address the disparities that are at the heart of our nation's founding and still run through its veins in the 21st century.