This post was authored by Ayana Prewitt and Joey Katzenell. The US tax code was created to make the wealthy...
Archive for tag: racism
The Concept of Reparations & Why Their Time Has Come
Earlier this year, Americans for Financial Reform and Take on Wall Street hosted a fireside chat with Jeremy Bearer-Friend, a...
Erasing Black People From American History: Why We Need Popular Education
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been in the public eye as of late. During the week of January 22nd, DeSantis...
Why you haven’t heard of Black land theft, and why you should.
This post was guest authored by Tykeisa Nesbitt. At the beginning of the 20th century, African Americans owned at least...
The Hidden Racism of the Tax Code: a fireside chat with Dr. Dorothy A. Brown & Dr. Darrick Hamilton
On December 9, the Take on Wall Street campaign of Americans for Financial Reform hosted a virtual fireside chat with...
Let’s audit Trump and his friends, not families who get the EITC
This post was guest authored by Anissa Arakal. As President Trump leaves the White House to retreat to a billionaires’...
In Coronavirus, Wall Street Senses An Opportunity to Privatize Our Schools. We Can’t Let Them.
This post was guest authored by Joseph Miller. In the throes of the 2008 financial crisis, the Denver Public School...
Let’s learn from our history so we can stop repeating it
This spring, we watched the murder of George Floyd in horror, adding another name to the seemingly endless list of...
The Big 6 Banks Respond to George Floyd’s Murder, and it’s not Pretty.
In the wake of the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, the CEOs of the...
A History Lesson on the Importance of History Lessons
At Take on Wall Street, we agree with the “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson, that “The conditions of...