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1 month ago | 
marketplace.org | Leanna Byrne |Meredith Garretson |Lee Hawkins |David Brancaccio
Mar 14, 2025
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1 month ago | 
marketplace.org | David Brancaccio |Meredith Garretson |Lee Hawkins |Dylan Miettinen
In our latest series, “Unlocking the Gates,” Marketplace Special Correspondent Lee Hawkins explores the lasting impact of housing discrimination. One tool once used to enforce housing discrimination was racial covenants. These were contracts added to property deeds that prevented Black people and other people of color from purchasing, leasing or occupying a property. These clauses were officially outlawed in the 1968 Fair Housing Act, but their impact can still be felt today.
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1 month ago | 
marketplace.org | Lee Hawkins |Reema Khrais
Note: Marketplace podcasts are meant to be heard, with emphasis, tone and audio elements a transcript can’t capture. Transcripts are generated using a combination of automated software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting. Reema Khrais: Hey y’all, it’s me Reema. So I know it’s been a while since I’ve been in your feeds.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | David Brancaccio |Lee Hawkins |Alex Schroeder |Erika Soderstrom
Today is Wednesday, Aug. 28. If you have an “On This Day in History” calendar handy, you might notice that lots happened on this date — especially key events critical to the Civil Rights Movement and U.S. economic history. To discuss the importance of the 28th day of August, Marketplace special correspondent Lee Hawkins joined “Marketplace Morning Report” host David Brancaccio for a discussion. The day has a personal significance for Hawkins, as well.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | David Brancaccio |Lee Hawkins |Alex Schroeder
Many of us have heard of or taken those genetics tests that help you trace your ancestry and get medical information about yourself. Marketplace special correspondent Lee Hawkins was working on his forthcoming book — and now a podcast for our APM Studios called “What Happened in Alabama?” — when he took the test. He recapped the experience with “Marketplace Morning Report” host David Brancaccio. Below is an edited transcript of their conversation.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | Lee Hawkins |Dylan Miettinen
At the national level, progress on making formal reparations for slavery has largely stalled. Various efforts at both the state and local levels have gained traction and seen more success, however. But what about for individuals? How can white folks whose ancestors benefited from — and even profited because of — slavery begin to directly engage in reparative justice? Lotte Lieb Dula hopes to provide a path forward.
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May 24, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | David Brancaccio |Lee Hawkins |Meredith Garretson
Heard on: This year, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that largely prohibits the state’s public colleges and universities from using federal funds for programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion.
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May 1, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | Lee Hawkins
A new law in Alabama that restricts diversity, equity and inclusion curriculum in public institutions has just been signed by Gov. Kay Ivey. The law will prohibit publicly funded institutions from endorsing or mandating DEI programs and goes into effect Oct. 1. Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin is now calling on Black athletes to boycott playing sports at Alabama colleges and universities in hopes the potential economic loss will lead to the law’s repeal.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | Lee Hawkins |Dylan Miettinen
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated 56 years ago today. His four children have worked to carry on his vision through his namesake center in Atlanta, which focuses on promoting nonviolent social change. When a determined Dr. King gave his prophetic “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech to striking Memphis sanitation workers, it would be his last. In it, he urged his followers to keep marching, though conceding that he might not live to see the progress.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | Lee Hawkins |Dylan Miettinen
Today is the first day of February and the first day of Black History Month, so we’re taking a look back at a powerful but not widely known figure in the Civil Rights Movement who worked behind the scenes with Martin Luther King Jr. and so many others on the economic side of the movement. He was a Black American entrepreneur named Arthur George Gaston, also known as A.G. Gaston. He mostly shunned the spotlight and wasn’t one to march or deliver speeches at rallies.
