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  • Moyers on Democracy
    Revisiting Rosedale
    June 21, 2020
    After a clip from Rosedale: The Way It Is, a 1976 Bill Moyers film documenting racial tension in one New York City community, went viral on social media, New York Times reporters tracked down the young Black children — now grownups — who were terrorized by a mob of white children 45 years ago.
  • Inequality
    How Our Tax Code Makes Inequality Worse
    May 17, 2017
    | Thomas M. Shapiro
    It has been engineered to promote inequality by providing mortgage interest deductions and other subsidies to people who don't need them.
  • We Should Ensure Access to Safe and Affordable Rental Housing
    January 29, 2015
    | Sarah Edelman and Julia Gordon
    Half of all renters spend more than 30 percent of their gross income on housing, while 27 percent spend more than 50 percent — both sharp increases over the last decade.
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates on How We Created the Ghetto
    May 28, 2014
    The journalist explains how government housing policies led blacks into the arms of fraudulent mortgage lenders and whites to dump their homes in 1960s Chicago.
  • Inequality
    More From Ta-Nehisi Coates on Our Racist Heritage
    May 23, 2014
    The Atlantic senior editor talks about black vs. white neighborhoods, the messages we send black kids and the elementary school experience that changed him.
  • Activism
    When Chicago’s West Side Fought Back
    May 22, 2014
    Watch two short docs from The Atlantic about African-Americans who fought back against housing discrimination in Chicago in the 1960s.
  • Your Turn: Reconciling Our Racist Past
    May 22, 2014
    Should reparations be considered? If so, what should they be, and if not, what are the alternatives?
  • Facing the Truth: The Case for Reparations
    May 21, 2014 | Moyers & Company
    Bill speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor for The Atlantic about his cover story on why America needs to reconcile with its racist past.
  • How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law
    May 21, 2014
    | Nikole Hannah-Jones
    Despite the Fair Housing Act, levels of residential segregation have barely budged in many of the large metropolitan areas where most African-Americans live. Here's why.
  • Morning Reads: Karl Rove's Dirty Politics; ALEC Fires Back at Critics
    May 14, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...


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