Zip Code, Race, & Class: Understanding The Cycle of Poverty (Patreon)

This year, one of my goals for Intelexual Media content has been to help more people understand the significant class barriers facing black Americans. Mainly because I'm sick of "I don't understand why you niggas are broke" rhetoric, but also because more black people need to be sick of it too. This video is 12 minutes long**, and explores how one's location is central to social mobility and financial health. It serves as an excellent companion piece for the seventh episode of Let's Talk About Sex History, which I'm currently editing and should have up tonight. I will be uploading the full video of Zip Code, Race, & Class to youtube for the general public tomorrow, but I wanted ya'll to have it first.

To watch the full Black Wealth Series, click here.

**if you've noticed, this is similar in length to other recent videos like Can Nuclear Families Save The Black Community? and Ride or Die: Black Women and Intimate Partner Violence. Thanks to the uptick in donations in the past two months, you'll be seeing a lot more of these!

Sources 

• Evicted (Matthew Desmond)
• Family Properties (Beryl Satter)
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Richard Rothstein) 
• For African Americans, 50 years of high unemployment (Algernon Austin)
• Workers of color are far more likely to be paid poverty-level wages than white workers (David Cooper)
• Why a housing scheme founded in racism is making a resurgence today (Emily Badger)
• Why Health Care Is Different If You're Black, Latino Or Poor (Robert Pearl)
• The truth about black unemployment in America (Caleb Gayle) 
• The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Neighborhoods (Paul Kiel and Annie Waldman)
• Credit scores in America perpetuate racial injustice. Here's how (Sarah Ludwig)
• Who Borrows, Where They Borrow, and Why  (Pew Charitable Trusts)
• After 50 years of progress and protest, America is still a land of unequal opportunity (Margaret Simms)
• Wells Fargo Gets What It Deserves—And Just in Time (Peter Dreier)
• THE NOTED RACIST: W. ALLAN JONES OF CHECK INTO CASH