Unfinished: Deep South Podcast — S1 E2 The High Sheriff
A $7 million dollar fortune. A white supremacist sheriff. And a 66-year old mystery: what happened to Isadore Banks’ land
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Unfinished: Deep South Podcast — S1 E1 Isadore Banks
For most of his life Isadore Banks found ways to survive—and thrive—in the violently anti-black South. He became one of
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Plantation Capitalism in Louisville, Kentucky (rootcauseresearch.org)
Originally published June 2 at the Root Cause Research Center website, updated June 7. The plantation has always occupied a
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Patent Racism (npr.org)
From npr.org, “Planet Money”—Dr. Lisa Cook found a blindspot in a big theory on innovation: the idea that if we
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Webinar: Reparations for Black Americans—Whether, why, and how? (Brookings, youtube.com)
On April 27, the Brookings Policy 2020 initiative and the Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary policy hosted an online
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Once a booming strip of black business, Walnut Street faded from Louisville’s memory for failed Urban Renewal (wdrb.com)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — There is a story in Louisville long faded from view, and time is taking the people
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True Reparations Are a National Debt: Localities and Individuals Should Not Foot the Bill and Cannot Build Systemic Remedies Alone (Roosevelt Institute)
BY WILLIAM “SANDY” DARITY , A. KIRSTEN MULLEN (Excerpt) So, who should pay the bill? In From Here to Equality, we argue that
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