Loreen Williamson and Pamela Thomas know that there are funkier figures in history than Booker T. Washington. Bear with them, though, and they will connect the dots that landed him in the Museum of UnCut Funk.
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How do Americans view poverty? Many blue-collar whites, key to Trump, criticize poor people as lazy and content to stay on welfare | Los Angeles Times
Most Americans do not believe that the government bears the main burden of taking care of the poor. Asked who has the “greatest responsibility for helping the poor,” just over one-third said that the government does. That figure has not budged in three decades.
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Are We Returning to Jim Crow? | The Root
When Donald Trump campaigned on the slogan “Make America Great Again,” many of us saw it for what it was—coded language for taking the mask—or the hood, as it were—off of white supremacy.
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Ben Carson is no hometown hero for Detroit’s struggling families | The Guardian
The housing secretary has not pushed back against the vast cuts to his department that will leave countless people out in the cold.
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Obama-Era Retirement Savings Program for Low-Income Workers Gets the Ax | Atlanta Black Star
NEW YORK (AP) — A savings program put into place under President Barack Obama and designed to get more people to put away money for retirement is being killed by the Treasury Department, which said it is too costly to maintain.
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The first woman to start a bank — a black woman — finally gets her due in the Confederacy’s capital | The Washington Post
Maggie L. Walker started a newspaper. She was the first country’s first woman to found a bank. She was a humanitarian, a teacher, an icon of her community in 1920s Richmond.
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Did You Know: Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company (1865-1874) – Afram News
The Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company, commonly referred to as The Freedmen’s Bank, was incorporated on March 3, 1865. It was created by the United States Congress along with the Freedmen’s Bureau to aid the freedmen in their transition from slavery to freedom.
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Couples Inc. : Beauty Supply Store Owners, Quintin & Megan Lathan – Shoppe Black
After all the conversations about how too few Black people are involved in the beauty supply industry, we were glad to learn about Quintin and Megan Lathan. They own Beauty Plus, a beauty supply store in Baltimore.
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Black Women in America Really Do Work Harder for Less, New Report Shows – Slate
It’s a familiar adage that black Americans have to work twice as hard to get half as far as their white counterparts—and that black women, oppressed by the intersecting forces of sexism and racism, have to struggle even more.
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States With Large Black Populations Are Stingier With Government Benefits – The Atlantic
Research suggests that states with homogenous populations are more willing to spend on the safety net than those with higher shares of minorities.
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