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What Rising Unemployment Means for the Economy. Then, Racial Disparities and Coronavirus with Ibram X. Kendi

KPFA - Letters and Politics

English - April 20, 2020 10:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 232 ratings
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Guests:
Sylvia Allegretto is a labor economist and co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California, Berkeley.
 
Ibram X. Kendi is a professor of history and international relations and the founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University.  He is the author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. His latest book is How to Be an Antiracist. He is a columnist at The Atlantic, his latest piece Stop Blaming Black People for Dying of the Coronavirus: New data from 29 states confirm the extent of the racial disparities.
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