Mar 16, 2022
The past weighs on every country, and nowhere is that more true than in Africa. The continent’s legacy of slavery, colonialism, and division has stood in the way of Africa’s struggle for stability and economic progress.
But in a paper in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, authors Nathan Canen and Leonard...
Mar 2, 2022
In the first half of the twentieth century, four million African Americans left the Jim Crow South to create new lives for themselves.
They moved to cities like Detroit, Baltimore, and Chicago in what came to be known as “the Great Migration.” And indeed, they did improve their economic standing, with some families...