Nkonyane Kandaba by S'busiso Ngema (Sarafina! The Sound of Freedom Original Soundtrack)

"Failure to acknowledge, recognize, and correct past cruelties will always lead to repeated uncivil behavior."
–Treava Hopkins-Laboy, Acting Director, NIH/EDI

Systematic discrimination and oppression in the United States has been a problem for well over many centuries. Ingrained inequality in our United States government, laws and policies, public and private institutions, and our way of life deny continuously equal opportunities to individuals and communities. Recognizing the enormous racial wealth gap and the lack of racial equity in the United States is extremely important. There are three major forms of wealth in the U.S. They are land, education, and equity. This presentation gives a dramatized view of generational wealth from 1492 until the present.