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Funding is the Matter

Funding is the Matter is a podcast that talks about the surplus of issues caused by the racial wealth gap. I tackle different science and policy issues on the local, state, and federal levels. Within each section, I am going to have a policy memo episode. A policy memo is a document that provides analysis and/or recommendations for a particular audience regarding a particular situation or problem. This is a podcast to educate and empower us all to take our future into our own hands. For the first series, I am going to be investigating the lack of funds for Historically Black Colleges and Universities or HBCUs.This podcast proves to define that Black Lives Matter is a scientific and social problem.To subscribe to this podcast, you can find it on Spotify, Apple, or other podcast platforms. This is a bi-weekly podcast, and it will be released on July 25th.

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The True Cost of Closing the Racial Wealth Gap with Dr. William A. Darity, Jr.

September 19, 2022 • Sarah Michelle Lee Bartley Productions • Season 1 • Episode 5

Bio: Dr. William Darity Jr., also known as Sandy Darity, is the Samuel DuBois (pronounced Dew Boys) Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, Economics, and Business and director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. Over the course of his academic career, his research has focused on the topics of racial and ethnic economic inequality and reparative justice. He launched the field of stratification economics in 2005. His 2020 award-winning publication, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, was coauthored with A. Kirsten Mullen.

Get his book From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century (at the following link: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469671208/from-here-to-equality-second-edition/)

Articles from this conversation:
1. The True Cost of Closing the Racial Wealth Gap (Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/business/racial-wealth-gap.html)
2. Darity Jr., W. Running the Numbers on Closing the Racial Wealth Gap, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, 2020.
3. Darity Jr., W., Mullen, A.K., Slaughter, M. “The Cumulative Costs of Racism and the Bill for Black Reparations” Journal of Economic Perspectives 36:2 Spring 2022 pp.99-122.

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