Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It by Perry, Andre M. building thriving Black communities

building thriving Black communities

Publication Date: April 4

Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race

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Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It by Perry, Andre M. building thriving Black communitiesFrom the creator of a unified field theory of racism (NPRs Planet Money), a dollars and cents reckoning of the state of Black America and a new framework to close the power gap Historically, Black Americans quest for power has been understood as an attempt to gain equal protections under the law. But power in America requires more than basic democratic freedoms. It is inextricably linked with economic influence and ownershipof ones self, home,