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Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

December 5, 2017December 21, 2017 Guy Emerson Mount capitalism, economic justice

When I first heard about the “#BankBlack movement” I knew I smelled a rat. So I wrote about it. After reading Mehrsa

Black Women and Economic Justice in St. Louis: An Interview with Keona Ervin

December 2, 2017December 6, 2017 Candace Borders Black women, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, economic justice, Jim Crow, Resistance

In today’s post, Candace Borders, a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, interviews Keona K. Ervin on her

A Discourse on Race and Inequality in the United States

November 30, 2017December 4, 2017 Kasturi "Rumu" DasGupta economic justice, prisons, Race and Economic History, segregation, slavery

This post is part of our online forum on Race, Property, and Economic History. The U.S. Census Bureau reported in early September (2017) that

How Gentrification and Displacement Are Remaking Boston

November 28, 2017December 2, 2017 Zebulon Miletsky and Tomas Gonzalez Boston, gentrification, Race and Economic History, segregation

This post is part of our online forum on Race, Property, and Economic History. Ask anyone in Boston, “what’s going on in Roxbury?”

Civil Rights Playwrights as Black Intellectuals

November 25, 2017November 28, 2017 Julie Burrell civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Harold Cruse, theater

In the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, contributors reaffirmed the significance of