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8/30 The Color of Law: How Our Government Segregated America w/ Richard Rothstein

August 30, 2017
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Richard Rothstein, research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley) joins us to discuss his new book, ‘The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America.’

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