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How Homeownership Has Kept Black Americans from Realizing MLK's Dreams

Fifty years ago today, participants in the March on Washington were seeking to narrow the economic gap between America's blacks and whites. After five decades, that gulf remains. Vauhini Vara explains how homeownership is partly to blame.

August 28, 2013 - The New Yorker

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