Resources on the history of the racial wealth and what needs to be done to close it.

Articles (HISTORY)

• Jim Crow Laws (History.com)

• Land and the roots of African-American poverty (Keri Leigh Merritt)

• The Case for Reparations (Ta-Nehisi Coates)

• The Homestead Act of 1862 (National Archives)

• Tulsa Race Massacre (History.com)

ARTICLES (CLOSING THE GAP)

• Closing the racial wealth gap requires heavy, progressive taxation of wealth (Vanessa Williamson)

• The economic impact of closing the racial wealth gap (McKinsey)

• The true cost of closing the racial wealth gap (William A. Darity Jr.)

• Minimum wage (Women Employed)

• Deeper in Debt: Women & Student Loans (AAUW)

• Calculating the Hidden Cost of Interrupting a Career for Child Care (Center for American Progress)

• Pay Matters: The Positive Economic Impacts of Paid Family Leave for Families, Businesses and the Public (Linda Houser, Ph.D.)

• Racism, Inequality, and Health Care for African Americans (Jamila Taylor)

  
  

Podcasts

• The Story of Freedman's Savings Bank (Mind Your Money with MissBeHelpful)

Books

• The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (Mehrsa Baradaran)

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Michelle Alexander)

• The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America (Shawn D. Rochester)

• How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy (Mehrsa Baradaran)

• Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires (Shomari Willis)

• The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide (Rose M. Brewer, Rebecca Adamson, Barbara J Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright)