Introduction: On being a Black intellectual -- Part I: On being an affirmative action baby. Racial preferences? So what? ; The representatives of the people ; The best Black ; Racial justice on the cheap -- Part II: On being a Black dissenter. Silencing dissent ; On contenting oneself with...

When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States' total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators...