Socioeconomics
City under siege: Coronavirus exacts heavy toll in Albany (ajc.com)
A rapidly growing rate of coronavirus infections has Albany under siege. Its main hospital is so overrun with sick and
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New Orleans emerges as next coronavirus epicenter, threatening rest of South (Reuters)
(Reuters) – New Orleans is on track to become the next coronavirus epicenter in the United States, dimming hopes that
Read moreFor vulnerable black communities, the pandemic is a “crisis on top of a crisis” (vox.com)
A full day before President Donald Trump declared the coronavirus outbreak a national emergency, the mayor of Flint, Michigan, declared a state
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Devaluing Black Assets (Vox podcast, “The Weeds”)
Link to podcast: Devaluing Black Assets Brookings’ Andre Perry explains his research on how racism cripples black entrepreneurs and homeowners
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When it comes to reparations, differences in black lineage matter (Commentary, Antonio Moore, #ADOS in USA Today)
Blacks who are the descendants of slaves and black immigrants have divergent histories, levels of wealth What we are now
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Five-star reviews, one-star profits: The devaluation of businesses in Black communities (Report, Brookings Institute)
In 2018, research from the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program (Brookings Metro) and Gallup showed that homes in Black-majority neighborhoods experience
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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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The Decadent Veil: Black America’s Wealth Illusion (huffpost.com)
Antonio Moore, co-founder of #ADOSOriginally written 08/05/2014, last updated 12/06/2017 I write this piece following the ground work laid by
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Median wealth of black Americans ‘will fall to zero by 2053’, warns report (theguardian.com)
Originally published by Jamiles Lartey, theguardian.com09/13/2017 Growing up in the projects of Baltimore in the 1980s, things like savings accounts,
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