NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘The White Bonus,’ Tracie McMillan analyzes the monetary cost of racism

Racism is a major contributor to economic disparities in the U.S. – but in her new book, The White Bonus, writer Tracie McMillan crunches the numbers to understand just how much money white privilege can mean. In today's episode, she speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about the different families she profiled, the generations of economic policy she analyzed, and the rift created within her own family during the process of reporting this book .

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Pod Save America - Why 2024 Should Be About the Supreme Court

The prosecution rests in Donald Trump's Manhattan trial, and the defense begins to present their case. Biden pitches young Black voters while Trump compares himself to Abraham Lincoln. Then: Justice Samuel Alito is outed for showing solidarity with the "Stop the Steal" movement, and Dan explains why Democrats should be running hard against the MAGA Supreme Court. Plus: Rudy Giuliani gets served!

 

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Chapo Trap House - 834 – Weakness Will Get You Nowhere feat. Pendejo Time (5/20/24)

The Pendejo boys are back ostensibly to cover some new Greg Abbott shenanigans out of Texas, but we also look at the ICC seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, the collapse of Red Lobster, a GOP candidate out of Missouri literally running against being “weak and gay,” and Chiefs’ kicker Harrison Butker’s redpilled address to Benedictine graduates. Find Pendejo Time wherever you get podcasts, and subscribe to their patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/pendejotime Also check out the Pendejo Time album here: https://pendejotime.bandcamp.com/album/pendejo-time

Read Me a Poem - “How Happy Is the Little Stone” by Emily Dickinson

Amanda Holmes reads Emily Dickinson’s “How Happy Is the Little Stone.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

 

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The Indicator from Planet Money - Building generational wealth in rural America

Homes are not just where we eat and sleep, but one of the primary ways people build generational wealth in the U.S. But with home shortages and harsh climates, rural America's path to building that wealth looks a little different than other parts of the country. Today on the show, we focus in on housing challenges in Alabama's Black Belt and one innovative solution to preserving generational wealth.

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There is growing segregation in millennial wealth

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Bad Faith - Episode 373 Promo – Green Party vs Black Interests (w/ Ajamu Baraka)

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Green Party 2016 vice presidential candidate and editor of Black Agenda Report Ajamu Baraka joins Bad Faith to weigh in on claims that the Green Party is hostile to Black interests, including intimations from Dr. Cornel West that racial politics played a role in his choice to forego the Greens and run as an independent. Baraka also weighs in on why Black people are fleeing the Democratic Party, Biden's latest polls, campus pro-Gaza protests, and Biden's Morehouse address.

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