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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton, a contributing writer at the New Yorker, and editor-at-large at Hammer and Hope. Her latest book is Race for Profit.
A transcript of our panel discussion on the Black Lives Matter movement.
The real estate market is so structured by race that Black families will never come out ahead.
Michelle Obama’s memoir, Becoming, reduces racial inequality to a matter of psychological impairment that can be overcome through grit and grin.
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