Summary: Welcome back to the second episode of the Race and Wealth Podcast. Our host, Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, sits down with Dr. Algernon Austin, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Global Policy Solutions. Dedrick and Algernon discuss the ways in which race and the economy play into the current political season, the Obama presidency; the fallacy of a post racial America and the Tea Party; and the challenges going forward with trying to close the racial wealth divide. For inquiries, suggestions or about the Race and Wealth Podcast, please email RacialWealthDivide@cfed.org To find more work from Algernon Austin, please visit http://www.algernonaustin.com/?page_id=191 For more information about the Racial Wealth Divide Initiative, please visit http://cfed.org/programs/racial_wealth_divide/ For more information about the Color of Wealth Summit, please visit http://globalpolicysolutions.org/2015colorofwealthsummit/ The intro is "Curiousity" by Lee Rosevere from the Album- Music for Podcasts. The outro is "Credit Roll" by Lee Rosevere from the Album- Music for Podcasts. Both tracks can be found at freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rose…_For_Podcasts/ Race and Wealth is edited and produced by Kye Hunter with Dedrick Asante-Muhammad as co-producer.
