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New Study Shows Wealth Inequality Hits Communities of Color Hardest

And it’s not just about rich and poor. The racial wealth gap is damaging to the economy as a whole. The story of the growing inequality in the United States has many dimensions. There is the overarching story of the last four decades of polarizing income, wealth, and opportunity. But the many ways these inequalities manifest depend on people’s gender, race, age, immigration status, and other experience. One piece of the story is to understand how 40 years of public policies have worsened the racial wealth divide and enriched the top 1 percent. Wealth is where the past shows up in the present, both in terms of historical advantages and barriers. Measures of wealth—what you own minus what you owe—reflect the multigenerational story of White supremacy in asset-building. Fo...
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‘Appalling’ video shows NY police pulling baby from mother’s arms

Outrage over video showing NYPD officers violently yanking toddler from his mother's arms at Brooklyn food stamp office. [Screenshot of Facebook video posted by Monae Sinclari] A video showing police officers violently yanking a toddler from his mother's arms at a Brooklyn food stamp office last week prompted outrage, with public officials expressing horror and clients of the facility complaining it is indicative of how the city treats social-services recipients. A witness said a security officer confronted the woman, Jazmine Headley, who had sat on the floor of the crowded office for two hours because of a lack of chairs. Police were called when she refused to leave. The woman ended up lying face-up on the floor during a tug of war over the child. "The baby was screaming...
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Research Shows Entire Black Communities Suffer Trauma After Police Shootings
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Research Shows Entire Black Communities Suffer Trauma After Police Shootings

Police killings of unarmed African Americans have created a mental health crisis of enormous proportions. Following several nationally publicized police killings of unarmed Black Americans in the United States, Eva L., a fitness instructor who identifies as Black, started to experience what she describes as “immense paranoia.” She would often call in sick, because she feared risking an encounter with police upon leaving her house. She also started to second-guess her and her husband’s decision to have children. “Seeing Black bodies murdered and physical/emotional violence online and on the news” was a trauma she could no longer bear, Eva says. “I was terrified of bringing a child into the world we live in and experience as Black people. I thought not having kids was a truer sign of l...
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Malia Obama Shows Off Sick Trick Her Mom Taught Her While Celebrating National Holiday Named After Her

Malia Obama Shows Off Sick Trick Her Mom Taught Her While Celebrating National Holiday Named After Her It is the final weeks of Malia Obama’s gap year before she begins Harvard in the Fall, and she is not wasting a moment of it. Malia has been quite the social butterfly over the last year ever since turning 18 years old and has been caught hobnobbing with celebrities and socialites on a regular basis. Malia’s actions have gained her celebrity status from the impressionable youth around the country. Now, these young people are pushing for a National Holiday to be renamed in Malia’s honor which has conservatives reeling. The Obama family reached a celebrity status during Barack Obama’s term as president. The family’s inner circle often included and was surrounded by professional athletes, r...
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‘Greatest living painter’? MCA shows life’s work of Kerry James Marshall
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‘Greatest living painter’? MCA shows life’s work of Kerry James Marshall

For the forthcoming, 70-plus-painting retrospective of his work, the one that will open at the Museum of Contemporary Art and then travel to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and to the MCA Los Angeles, Kerry James Marshall had to put into the hands of the show's curators his life's work, an explicit and prescient statement, in paint, that black lives matter.That was fine with the 60-year-old South Side artist, he said the other day in his Bronzeville studio, except for two or three paintings he asked them to also include. Source: 'Greatest living painter'? MCA shows life's work of Kerry James Marshall - Chicago Tribune
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