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‘The Barber Of Little Rock,’ Oscar-Contending Film About Heroic Warrior For Economic Justice, Gets Assist From Dwyane Wade
NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade is considered one of the greatest to ever play the game of basketball, winner of three NBA championships and a gold medal at the Olympic Games. For those accomplishmen…
In the film, Washington introduces himself, saying, “My purpose in life is to advance equity and create opportunities and build the community.” He describes the distress felt by so many people where he lives — a reality across the country for millions of low-income Americans — who do not have access to capital. Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865, his successor, Andrew Johnson, rescinded the order “and returned most of the land along the South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida coasts to the planters who had originally owned it” (in the words of Barton Myers of Texas Tech University). The decades after the Civil War, through the Jim Crow era in the South of the 20th century, was marked by systematic efforts to destroy wealth creation by African Americans – as in the racist outburst in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921 when a white mob killed prosperous Black townspeople and burned down the area known as “Black Wall Street.” More subtle means, like redlining of urban neighborhoods in the North and South, has across the decades denied people of color access to loans.
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