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The racial wealth gap won’t budge: There’s a tax for that

We’ve seen 70 years of breakthroughs in science, academia and technology, but public policy has kept the profound racial wealth gap largely unmoved since 1950.

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FOR SOME time it had not rained in Claremont, St Ann, but the showers came down yesterday, forcing supporters of Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament (MP) for St Ann North East, Shahine Robinson, to seek shelter inside her home or other sections of the

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Georgia Gov. Kemp shows that he doesn't care about Black people | The Atlanta Voice

Early this month, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced on Twitter that she and members of her family had tested positive for Covid-19. She has also, as it happens, repeatedly tried to get a mask requirement enacted to protect her city's residents. She can't because Georgia's Republican

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