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‘It Does Something to Your Soul When Everyone Losing Their Homes Looks Like You’ | Politico
In Durham, a young lawyer raised in public housing teaches elite law students to save poor people from eviction.
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This Maker Is Helping to Build a More Inclusive Movement | Next City
“Once I got out there and started doing shows and markets, I started to notice there was a lack of representation of makers of color, and also makers who were maybe single mothers…”
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An Epic Supreme Court Decision on Employment | The Atlantic
The 5-4 ruling in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis could weaken workplace protections—and the justices on both sides knew it.
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Black higher education after the Civil War | The Weekly Challenger
In “From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans,” initially published in 1947, John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr., examined the history of Negro education during and after the Reconstruction era.
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The Other Black Wall Streets | The Root
Between the Civil War and the end of Reconstruction, there were many black communities that thrived economically solely based on the black dollar.
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African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres of Land Over the Last Century | The Nation
An obscure legal loophole is often to blame.
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Poor People’s Campaign Launches With March on Capitol Hill | Colorlines
The campaign’s list of demands directly address the issues of systemic racism and economic inequality.
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Church Organization Fights For Food Equity in the Black Community | AFRO
Currently there are nine Baltimore area churches in the network, with four other congregations and one mosque slated to join later this year. There are also plans to expand to rural churches on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the near future.
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Women in Prison Take Home Economics, While Men Take Carpentry | The Atlantic
Decades after a government report on deep inequity in the vocational offerings of the nation’s criminal-justice system, little has changed.
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