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Persistence of the Racial Wealth Gap Despite MLK’s Pleads for Justice
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January 18, 2022
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9:05Now PlayingDr. Martin Luther King Jr. challenged the country to address the racial injustice baked into the American economy.
In a speech given just weeks before he was assassinated, Dr. King spoke about the curse of poverty the federal government cast on Black Americans from Emancipation.
Commemorating Dr. King’s legacy today during a taped speech for the National Action Network, the U.S. treasury secretary invoked King’s vision for economic justice and reflected on how the country has fallen short.
Darrick Hamilton, economics and urban policy professor at the New School, joins Charles Blow on “Prime” to discuss.
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