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Reframing the conversation on racial justice and equity.

A collaboration with The Boston Globe and Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research

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WEALTH GAP | Frederick F. Wherry
Where credit scores come from and why they don’t quite add up — but can
Without a credit score, Boni was stuck. Everything he was doing with his money would have been fine if the credit-reporting companies knew about it. They did not.

EXPLAIN | Jalil Mustaffa Bishop
Stop asking how to pay for free college and account for the unjust, wasteful spending of not doing so
Higher education hasn’t lived up to its racial justice and social mobility ideals — but can.

THE BIG PICTURE | KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR
We can solve the racial wealth gap
“Where is the money?” abolitionist Maria Stewart asked in the 1800s. We’re still asking.

EXPLAIN | Mandi Woodruff-Santos
How the pandemic changed the way Black workers go to work
The pandemic might have been the spark that ignited the so-called Great Resignation, but widespread racial and gender inequity at work served as the perfect kindling.

WEALTH GAP
It’s not too late for Biden to become an antiracist president
Racism doesn’t always show up with tiki torches and epithets; more often it manifests as disregard. Black voters ostensibly matter during political campaigns, but once in office, more often than not, politicos devalue the Black labor, input, and demands that propel them to victory.