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Four Numbers That Show the Cost of Slavery on Black Wealth Today
Episode 2 of The Pay Check podcast does the math on moments in U.S. history that led to the racial wealth gap.
Martin Luther King Jr. at Stanford University in 1967
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Nearly 160 years ago, U.S. policy makers almost started to address the wealth inequities created by slavery.