Netflix Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap
Project LEARN Category
R - Respond
Intended Audience(s)
Theme/Focus
History
Racism
Documentary Details
Director: Ezra Klein
Year: 2020
Running Time: 15 minute episodes
Rating: TV-MA
Domentary
Synopsis
In partnership with Vox Media Studios and Vox, this enlightening explainer series will take viewers deep inside a wide range of culturally relevant topics, questions, and ideas. Each episode will explore current events and social trends pulled from the zeitgeist, touching topics across politics, science, history and pop culture -- featuring interviews with some of the most authoritative experts in their respective fields.
In this episode: Cory Booker and others discuss how slavery, housing discrimination and centuries of inequality have compounded to create a racial wealth gap.