Video: Explained—Racial Wealth Gap (16 min.)

To-Do Date: Dec 30 at 11:59pm

Video:  The Racial Wealth Gap Explained [Explained Season 1, Episode 1]Links to an external site.

(Netflix, 2020, 16 minutes)

What policies, practices, and forces created the racial wealth gap?

Graph showing how the median wealth of white families is nearly 10X greater than black families

In this episode of ExplainedLinks to an external site.: Cory Booker and others discuss how slavery, housing discrimination and centuries of inequality have compounded to create a racial wealth gap.

Transcript

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