Last week the Boston Globe dropped a bombshell about the state of black wealth in their city, showing that the middle black family in Boston had a net worth of $8.00.
These are times to be vigilant in our politics. Black America must continue the economic battles that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took on at the end of his life.
For years I have sounded the alarm that an economic storm was coming. My Emmy nominated documentary “Freeway Crack in The System” exposed the incarceration driven band-aid we have put over the long standing issue of racial wealth inequality, by surveying how a generation of jobless blacks turned to drugs to survive, and our answer was incarceration.