News Media
News Articles
- William Darity, Why Reparations Are Needed to Close the Racial Wealth Gap," New York Times, Late Edition (East Coast), (September 24, 2021).
- Michelle Singletary, "Perspective | The tax system is built to favor wealthy Whites, new book argues," Washington Post, (May 28, 2021).
- Jason Grotto, "The $500 Billion Bias Problem," Bloomberg Businessweek (March 15, 2021).
- Ben Steverman, "Tax Code So White," Bloomberg Businessweek (March 15, 2021).
- Ben Steverman, "A Tax Code Optimized for White Wealth Leaves Black Americans Behind," Bloomberg Businessweek, (March 10, 2021).
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- Chase Woodruff, “Racial Inequalities in Colorado’s Tax Code Highlighted as Proposition 116 Fight Looms,” Colorado Newsline, (September 2, 2020).
- Randy Charles Epping, “Opinion: Raising Taxes on the Rich Would Help Reduce Wealth Gap,” CNN, (August 27, 2020).
- Kiley Gosselin & Kevin Taylor, “’Suburban Strategy’ Caused Segregation; It’s Time to Fix It,” The Hartford Courant, (August 22, 2020).
- Lydia O’Neal & Allyson Versprille, “Tax Code Inequities Fuel Call for IRS to Collect Race-Based Data,” Bloomberg Tax, (August 18, 2020).
- Chris Wodicka, “State Tax Policy Options to Prepare for Stronger Recovery,” The Daily Progress, (August 12, 2020).
- Curtis Black, “Social Justice Movement Should Focus on Passing Fair Tax Amendment this November,” Chicago Reporter, (July 23, 2020).
- Jacob M. Schelsinger, “Biden Offers Big Government Plan to Address Racial Inequality,” Wall Street Journal, (July 13, 2020).
- Scripps National, “Study of Property Taxes Nationwide Finds Racial Inequalities,” The Denver Channel, (July 8, 2020).
- Marian McPherson, “Black, Hispanic Homeowners Slapped with Higher Property Taxes: Study,” Inman, (July 6, 2020).
- Robert T. Palmer & Larry J. Walker, “Proposing a Concept of the Black Tax to Understand the Experiences of Blacks in America,” Diverse Education, (July 6, 2020).
- J. Edward Moreno, “New Study Finds Systemic Racism in Property Tax Assessments,” The Hill, (July 2, 2020).
- Andrew Van Dam, “Black Families Pay Significantly Higher Property Taxes than White Families, New Analysis Shows,” The Washington Post, (July 2, 2020).
- Teresa Wiltz, “Black Homeowners Pay More than ‘Fair Share’ in Property Taxes,” The Connecticut Mirror, (June 28, 2020).
- Lily Batchedler, “Tax the Rich and Their Heirs,” The New York Times, (June 24, 2020).
- Andrew Keshner, “3 Ways the Tax Code ‘Amplifies’ the Racial Wealth Gap,” MarketWatch, (June 19, 2020).
- Kimberly Amadeo, “How to Close the Racial Wealth Gap in the United States,” The Balance, (June 10, 2020).
- Sheila Reynertson, “Road to Recovery: Reforming New Jersey’s Income Tax Code,” New Jersey Policy Perspectives, (June 9, 2020).
- Mitchell Schnurman, “AT&T and Its Brethren Pushed Through Tax Cuts in 2017; Will They Tackle Racial Justice Now?,” Dallas Morning News, (June 7, 2020).
- Michelle Singletary, “Tax Code Isn’t Neutral on Race, Researchers Find,” The Washington Post, (February 1, 2020).
- Jeffrey Frankel, “Six Tax-Based Ways to Tackle US Income Inequality,” The Guardian, (December 18, 2019).
- Riley Bunch, “Lawmakers Push for More Money for Low-Income Schools,” The Daily Citizen, (December 13, 2019).
- Danielle Kurtzleben, “How Would a Wealth Tax Work?,” NPR, (December 5, 2019).
- Paul Kiel & Hannah Fresques, “Where in th U.S. Are You Most Likely To Be Audited by the IRS?,” ProPublica, (April 1, 2019).
- Anna Baumann, “Commentary: New Report Shows Kentucky’s Tax System Worsens Income Inequality,” Louisville Future, (October 22, 2018).
- Jim Takersley, “White Americans Gain the Most from Trump’s Tax Cuts, a Report Finds,” The New York Times, (October 11, 2018).
- Keith M. Phaneuf, “Formula for Revitalizing State Provokes Resistance,” Record-Journal, (March 24, 2018).
- Herald-Leader Editorial Board, “Editorial - Governor, Legislators Dishonor King with Budgets that Breed Division,” Lexington Herald-Leader, (January 15, 2018).
- Dedrick Asante-Muhammad & Chuck Collins, “Racial Inequality is Hollowing Out America’s Middle Class,” The Newton Daily News, (September 15, 2017).
- Binyamin Appelbaum, “Median U.S. Household Income Up for 2nd Straight Year,” The New York Times, (September 12, 2017).
- John Eligon, Yamiche Alcindor, & Agustin Armendariz, “Program to Spur Low-Income Housing is Keeping Cities Segregated,” The New York Times, (July 2, 2017).
- Brian Lyman, “A Permanent Wound: How the Slave Tax Warped Alabama Finances,” Montgomery Advertiser, (February 6, 2017).
Magazine Articles
- Darren Walker, “9 Things Corporations Should Do to Address Racial Inequality,” TIME, (August 4, 2020).
- Kara Voght, “The Fed Plays a Huge Role in Perpetuating Racial Disparities; Joe Biden Wants to Fix That,” Mother Jones, (July 28, 2020).
- Annie Lowrey, “A Cheap, Race-Neutral Way to Close the Racial Wealth Gap,” The Atlantic, (June 29, 2020).
- Adolph Reed, Jr., “The Surprising Cross-Racial Saga of Modern Wealth Inequality,” The New Republic, (June 29, 2020).
- Jeff Kauflin & Janet Novak, “Five Big Ideas to Narrow the Racial Wealth Gap,” Forbes, (June 25, 2020).
- Kat Eschner, “Why it matters that race and ethnicity aren’t recorded by the IRS,” Popular Science, (June 23, 2020).
- Eric Levitz, “Corporations Talk Justice while Increasing Racial Inequality,” New York Magazine, (June 16, 2020).
- Jane McAlevey, “We Really Need to Tax the Rich,” The Nation, (June 2, 2020).
News Interviews
- Dorothy Brown, “What the Current Protests Have to do with Economic Inequality,” Marketplace (NPR), (June 2, 2020).
- Sharon Epperson, “Black Corporate, Nonprofit Leaders Say Protests Point to America’s Racial Injustice and Racial Disparity in Wealth Between African Americans and Whites in the U.S.,” CNBC, (June 2, 2020).
- Kevin Brady, Chuck Schumer, & Dorothy Brown, “How the Tax Code Affects Minorities,” Weekend Edition Sunday (NPR), (October 1, 2017).