Black Millennial Wealth Trails Previous Generations of Black Americans by 52%, Study Shows
While millennial wealth overall has improved since 2018, Black millennials who have endured two recessions and a pandemic lag far behind Getty
Last month, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis published a study indicating that millennial wealth was about 11% below expectations, an improvement over 2018 when that number was 34%. But the prospects for Black millennials in particular are much more dire, as NPR reported this week.
As NPR highlighted, the ratio of wealth for your typical white millennial family versus Black: $88,000 to $5,000. Looking at generational wealth factors, “Black millennials trail previous generations of Black Americans by 52%.” New America emphasized this issue in their report on the millennial racial wealth gap, which also explored the historical legacies of Black-White wealth inequality. This is especially bleak for Black men as one study found
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No glass ceiling : Tulane doctor files discrimination lawsuit against medical school
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On Thursday, the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans dismissed physician Princess Dennar as the program director of its combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency program. She had been the first and only Black woman to be program director at Tulane’s medical school.
By Friday, the social media furor had begun.
The hashtag #DNRTulane, or “Do Not Rank Tulane,” flared on Twitter, referring to the match process medical students go through to express their preferred residency programs, as did #JusticeForDrDennar. Now, the outpouring of posts and petitions decrying the termination of Dennar’s position at Tulane is generating a national conversation about racial inequities and discrimination that physicians of color, especially underrepresented women of color, face in academic medicine.
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Show Transcript TO CHANGE THE FACE OF MEDICINE FOR THE FUTURE. IF THERE IS ONE THING THIS DOCTOR IS REALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT, IT’S MEDICINE. THE NAVY VETERAN RECEIVED HIS PHD IN MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY AND HE IS EXPANDING HIS MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE. HE IS ENROLLED IN THE M BA PROGRAM AND TO LANE UNIVERSITY. AND TO LANE UNIVERSITY. TWO LANE UNIVERSITY TULANE UNIVERSITY. HE SAYS THAT MESSAGE IS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW AS THE FIGHT TO END COVID-19 CONTINUES. THIS PANDEMIC ESSENTIALLY ACCENTUATED A PROBLEM THAT OUR COUNTRY HAS HAD FOR A VERY LONG TIME IN TERMS OF HEALTH DISPARITIES. HE IS DOING WHATEVER HE CAN TO SPREAD THE WORD. YOU KNOW THIS IS? NAH. WHAT IS IT. IT’S A MESSAGE TO EVERYONE. WE NEED MORE BLACK DOCTORS. HAVING BLACK DOCTORS WITH BLACK PATIENTS I