Essence Magazine:
By Jasmine Browley ·Updated June 27, 2022
Many of us have heard about the damaging effects of the racial wealth gap between White and Black Americans and how it shows up in everyday life. It’s important to go back to the beginning, though.
Following the emancipation of enslaved Black people in 1863, they received no form of reparative payment for the nearly 250 years of free labor.This immensely impacted the wealth-building
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