Blueprint for Apartheid: How the U.S. Government Engineered American Segregation

Most of us were taught that segregation in America happened by accident - that it was simply the result of personal prejudice or private choice. It wasn't. It was the law. In this episode of Rethinking Freedom, part of our summer series The Other Side of Freedom: USA at 250, host Aya Fubara Eneli sits down with Richard Rothstein, author of the landmark book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Rothstein pulls back the curtain on how federal, state,...