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Song of Solomon deals with slavery and racism and is at times both violent and sexually explicit, with graphic language and references to 🤬, as well as references to several real-life hate crimes, including the 🤬 of 14-year-old Emmett Till and the murders of four African-American girls in an Alabama church bombing. There's an attempted strangulation, a knife fight, a shooting, and a suicide by jumping from a building. This masterful novel will give you stuff to think about like race, gender, power, and identity. It's a rich but intense book. the reason that i included this is because it brings up the topic of slaves and racial inequality and that is the main focus. it tells about how a long time ago when racial inequality was worse and can show you how it has progressed

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Racial Inequality Is Hollowing Out America’s Middle Class

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Racial Inequality Is Hollowing Out America’s Middle Class

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the reason that i picked this article is because it does not just focus on race it includes all so i found it cool because it also talks about time periods and in different places

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Racial Inequality Is Hollowing Out America's Middle Class
By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chuck Collins
America's middle class is under assault.

Since 1983, national median wealth has declined by 20 percent, falling from $73,000 to $64,000 in 2013. And U.S. homeownership has been in a steady decline since 2005.

While we often hear about the struggles of the white working class, a driving force behind this trend is an accelerating decline in black and Latino household wealth.

Over those three decades, the wealth of median black and Latino households decreased by 75 percent and 50 percent, respectively, while median white household wealth actually rose a little. As of 2013, median whites had $116,800 in wealth - compared to just $2,000 for Latinos and $1,700 for blacks.

This wealth decline is a threat to the viability of the American middle class and the nation's overall economic health. Families with more wealth can cover emergencies without going into debt and take advantage of economic opportunity, such as buying a home, saving for college, or starting a business.

We looked at the growing racial wealth gap in a new report for the Institute for Policy Studies and Prosperity Now.

We found that if these appalling trends continue, median black household wealth will hit zero by 2053, even while median white wealth continues to climb. Latino net worth will hit zero two decades later, according to our projections.

It's in everyone's interest to reverse these trends. Growing racial wealth inequality is bringing down median American middle class wealth, and with it shrinking the middle class - especially as Americans of color make up an increasing share of the U.S. population.

The causes of this racial wealth divide have little to do with individual behavior. Instead, they're the result of a range of systemic factors and policies.

These include past discriminatory housing policies that continue to fuel an enormous racial divide in homeownership rates, as well as an "upside down" tax system that helps the wealthiest households get wealthier while providing the lowest income families with almost nothing.

The American middle class was created by government policy, investment, and the hard work of its citizenry. Today Americans are working as hard as ever, but government policy is failing to invest in a sustainable and growing middle class.

To do better, Congress must redirect subsidies to the already wealthy and invest in opportunities for poorer families to save and build wealth.

For example, people can currently write off part of their mortgage interest payments on their taxes. But this only benefits you if you already own a home - an opportunity long denied to millions of black and Latino families - and benefits you even more if you own an expensive home. It helps the already rich, at the expense of the poor.

Congress should reform that deduction and other tax expenditures to focus on those excluded from opportunity, not the already have-a-lots.

Other actions include protecting families from the wealth stripping practices common in many low-income communities, like " contract for deed " scams that can leave renters homeless even after they've fronted money for expensive repairs to their homes. That means strengthening institutions like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The nation has experienced 30 years of middle class decline. If we don't want this to be a permanent trend, then government must respond with the boldness and ingenuity that expanded the middle class after World War Two - but this time with a racially inclusive frame to reflect our 21st century population.
Originally posted at Common Dreams. Teaser photo credit: (Kenneth Worles, Jr. / Institute for Policy Studies)

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Racial Inequality Is Hollowing Out America's Middle Class

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Racial Inequality Is Hollowing Out America's Middle Class By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chuck Collins America's middle class is under assault. Since 1983, national median wealth has declined by 20 percent, falling from $73,000 to $64,000 in 2013. And U.S. homeownership has been in a steady decline since 2005.

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the reason that i mention this movie if because it is based off of the book but it also has alot of detail in it and you can get a clear vision of the book just on a tv screen

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Sweep it all beneath the rug
Doesn't mean the dirt won't come up
There's a fire burnin' up Only thing stronger than hate is love We need a change, oh yeah The song Amazing Grace Won't be quiet anymore Not unless they hear us loud and clear
Damage can't be undone Let's not pretend it disappears We need a change, oh yeah The song Amazing Grace Let's go step by step And brick by brick I'll carry the weight For you When I'm gone, don't stop We can stand here all day We won't move No, not at all We won't let the silence drown us out They'll say a moment's not about But we won't back out Hands up, we're 'bout to take this down It's gonna change, oh yeah With love and humanity So step by step And brick by brick I'll carry the weight For you When I'm gone, don't stop We can stand here all day We won't move No, not at all We won't move We won't move We won't move We want all the power in your grief (Can't hold us) And all the hate you give (Won't stop us) We will rise up through the falls We will make 'em hear it all We won't stop until they know (About us) All the power in your grief (Can't hold us) And all the hate you give (Won't stop us) We will do it, trouble will do it Let everybody hold us We will break through every wall So step by step And brick by brick I'll carry the weight For you When I'm gone, don't stop We gon' stand here all day We won't move No, not at all We won't move We won't move We won't move Yeah We won't move (we can stand here all day) We won't move
the reason that i picked this song was one because it was made for the movie but because of the words that are in it.
the song gives you intel of what happens and how people like starr need to find there voice and speek up for what they know or just think is right

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this book is based on a true story from the Underground Railroad and is as riveting as the strong, straightforward stare of the young boy on its cover. children are sold away from their families, and the other harsh realities of Henry's life. An author's note at the end tells of the real Henry Brown and his Freedom Box on which this story was based. the reason that i picked this is because it also has to do with racial inequality

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Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds -- the poor, mostly black neighborhood where she lives and the wealthy, mostly white prep school that she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is soon shattered when she witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend at the hands of a police officer. Facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and decide to stand up for what's right.