"I saw a sea of young people who were charged as first-time felons, and I thought there's got to be some other way because if they take a plea, they’ve impacted their ability to earn.."
"There are so many people in the business community who ... don't understand capitalism," says a Civil Rights leader. "They think that in order for them to have more, the poor have to have less."
“If we step away from holding corporations accountable, then there’s a lot that we lose,” says a marketing executive who founded the Black Dollar Index.
"We’ve found in our research it is often harder to trace ancestors for Black Americans than white Americans. How do federal records help identify former slaves and slave owners?"
