• 33:41 - 37:40
Dr. Angela J. Hattery & Dr. Earl Smith | Policing Black Bodies, Prison Inc., & The Poverty Trap
Intergenerational Wealth, Housing Discrimination and Newsday Experiment
Dr. Hattery explains how intergenerational wealth is tied to property ownership, tracing the advantage back to when white citizens could use enslaved people as collateral for loans. A 2019 Newsday investigation is cited, which used "testers" to prove that the housing market in Long Island remains as segregated and discriminatory as it was in the 1940s. This systemic lockout prevents Black families from building the equity necessary to fund education or legal defense.