Morgan State University 80-year-old segregation wall comes down in Baltimore

For over three fourths of a century, students at Morgan State University walking down Hillen Road would walk past a red brick wall. Unbeknownst to most, the wall was built by White residents in the 1930s in response to the increasing enrollment of Black students at Morgan State, a historically Black institution. The construction of the “Spite Wall” at Morgan State epitomizes the hate that does not welcome Black students. Destroying this wall is a collaborative effort to reconstruct and expand the University.

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Inside the US jobs report: Record-low Black unemployment

The Black unemployment rate hit a record low in March, a milestone for a U.S. labor market that most policymakers and economists expect to begin cooling in the face of higher interest rates, jeopardizing those historic gains. The unemployment rate for Black Americans reached 5.0% with Black women having an even lower rate. Centuries of racial injustice and resistance to reparations for Black Americans have contributed to the Black unemployment rate, The 1963 March on Washington was originally the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Civil rights leaders and Black economists have advocated for economic welfare and equal rights for Black Americans.

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