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Richard Rothstein wrote the book, The Color of Law: the Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, in 2017. "A former columnist for the New York Times and a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, as well as a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Rothstein has spent years documenting the evidence that government not merely ignored discriminatory practices in the residential sphere, but promoted them. The impact has been devastating for generations of African-Americans who were denied the right to live where they wanted to live, and raise and school their children where they could flourish most successfully." (from epi.org) Listen to an interview with Richard Rothstein on NPR's "Fresh Air" by clicking on this link: www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america