Rachel Ferguson and Marcus Witcher explain how black Americans have been held down by the state and lifted up by the market.

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Today’s book: Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

The Black Boom

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