Essence Magazine:
By Felice León ·Updated May 23, 2023
In the United States, the racial wealth gap remains an ominous representation of how centuries of systemic oppression can impact a people.
Despite the invaluable contributions to the infrastructure of the nation by our ancestors (including cotton production which, according to Cornell University historian Ed Baptist, was nearly half of the country’s economic activity in 1836)—Black Americans have historically been shut out
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