Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America's Black Cities

The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. An enduring white supremacist myth claims brutal conditions in Black communities are mainly the result of Black people's collective choices and moral failings. “That's just how they are” or “there's really no excuse”: we've all heard those not so subtle digs.
But there is nothing wrong with Black people that ending racism can't solve. We haven't known how much...