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Calvin Schermerhorn

@calscherm

Author of The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made (2025) @yalepress. From Southern Maryland🍂. Teaches history in Arizona 🌵

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The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made: Dorothy A. Brown says it “sets out in clear and exquisite detail the huge obstacles placed in the path of African Americans who simply wanted to...leave their children with brighter futures” lnkd.in/gXwhCUqs

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Beyond Tulsa: Uncovering America's forgotten Black Wall Streets and their legacies today By Jazmin Goodwin, Data work By Elena Cox ow.ly/bqaN50VjyYL #blackwallstreet #tulsaracemassacre #blackentrepreneurs #economicjustice #racialwealthgap #stacker

Beyond Tulsa: Uncovering America's forgotten Black Wall Streets and their legacies today
By Jazmin Goodwin, Data work By Elena Cox
ow.ly/bqaN50VjyYL

#blackwallstreet #tulsaracemassacre #blackentrepreneurs #economicjustice #racialwealthgap #stacker
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Our Sr. Program Director Laudz Jean-Jacques alongside Terese Caro of LRC MKE and Lycrecia Parks of CCLF spoke as panelists for the 2025 @ncrc conference, discussing “Beyond the Buzz: Keeping Racial Equity at the Heart of Finance.” #CDFIs #JustEconomy #RacialWealthGap

Our Sr. Program Director Laudz Jean-Jacques alongside Terese Caro of <a href="/LRCmke/">LRC MKE</a> and Lycrecia Parks of <a href="/cclfchicago/">CCLF</a> spoke as panelists for the 2025 @ncrc conference, discussing “Beyond the Buzz: Keeping Racial Equity at the Heart of Finance.”  
#CDFIs #JustEconomy #RacialWealthGap
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The racial wealth gap is widening and it's time for action. 🔗 Read more on how Black-led CDFIs are leading the charge in rebuilding Black wealth, filling the gap left after the loss of Black Wall Street communities: shorturl.at/UJF9I. #ForbesBLK #RacialWealthGap

The racial wealth gap is widening and it's time for action. 🔗 Read more on how Black-led CDFIs are leading the charge in rebuilding Black wealth, filling the gap left after the loss of Black Wall Street communities: shorturl.at/UJF9I. 

#ForbesBLK #RacialWealthGap
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Fair housing advocates are fighting President Trump's administration over the potential cuts of HUD grants under the recommendation of a DOGE task force. Here's why it relates to wealth. #wealthmanagement #homeownership #racialwealthgap bit.ly/42Cdt7F

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#OnThisDay in 1850, Shadrach Minkins, already separated from his family, escaped from the Norfolk, Virginia, home, where he was enslaved. He made his way to Boston, where he did odd jobs until he began working as a waiter at Taft’s Cornhill Coffee House. Months later, Congress

#OnThisDay in 1850, Shadrach Minkins, already separated from his family, escaped from the Norfolk, Virginia, home, where he was enslaved. He made his way to Boston, where he did odd jobs until he began working as a waiter at Taft’s Cornhill Coffee House. 

Months later, Congress
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I'm so gratified hearing the expert testimonies of both Brea Baker, who's the scholar and author of "Rooted" an excellent blueprint for tax and land reparations. Calvin Schermerhorn ! They are giving the Commission teeth to the work ahead. Native Son thanks so much for introducing me to

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“It comes with great shock, to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance... has not pledged allegiance to you.” —James Baldwin

“It comes with great shock, to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance... has not pledged allegiance to you.” —James Baldwin
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Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah explores how early social scientists developed our modern understandings of society through their theories of religion yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030023…

Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah explores how early social scientists developed our modern understandings of society through their theories of religion
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030023…
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Check out this interview with Professor Bernadette Atuahene, author of Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America youtube.com/watch?v=ki71sE…

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Congratulations Dr. Rhonda Phillips Rhonda Phillips, Ph.D., FAICP on becoming the next president of St. Mary's College of Maryland!! - from a member of the SMCM Class of '98 and current Arizona State University prof.

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Thank you, JT! I'm so grateful to you for your brotherhood and for being such a important interlocutor and thought partner over many many years now, as I worked to bring this book to completion.

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Listen in to André Brock, Jr. talking about media, knowledge production, and critical Black Studies on the podcast. Fantastic episode, here or at your favorite streaming service: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

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“If a billionaire bought one of your local haunts, renamed it, humiliated the employees, brought back…people who’d been banned for harassing other regulars, eliminated basic rules of decency…taking your business elsewhere would be perfectly rational.”theatlantic.com/technology/arc…