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MLK Day highlights persisting racial income gaps

Professor Justene Hill Edwards
Erin Edgerton
Professor Justene Hill Edwards

Since reconstruction, black Americans have been fighting an uphill battle for income, wealth and home ownership equity in America.

As we commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Professor Justene Hill Edwards looks at the history of Black inequity in the United States.

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