The reluctant millionaires
The Documentary Podcast
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The Spirit of the American Dream
The average black household has less than 15 cents for every dollar and wealth owned by the average white household. "I am from a people who were not even considered human beings, and yet our human spirit continued to shine," she says. Today's huge wealth chasm is almost entirely due to explicitly racist decisions made in the first half of the 20th century.
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