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The racial wealth gap’s larger than ever
July 31, 2011
The racial wealth gap has been enormous ever since the Census Bureau began measuring it 25 years ago. But it has never been larger than today. The median wealth of a white family is now at least 20 times higher than that of a Black family and 18 times that of a Latino family.
‘Take This Hammer’: Classic 1963 film of James Baldwin touring the hoods of San Francisco
February 22, 2011
KQED’s mobile film unit follows James Baldwin in the spring of 1963 as he’s driven around San Francisco to meet with the Black community and discover “the real situation of Negroes in the city, as opposed to the image San Francisco would like to present.”