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URL:https://homeofva.org/events/lets-talk-about-housing-the-black-tax/
SUMMARY:Let's Talk About Housing: "The Black Tax"
DESCRIPTION:Join HOME of VA executive director Thomas Okuda Fitzpatrick for
  the first conversation in a new series exploring the past and future pros
 pects for fair housing.\n\n\n\nAndrew Kahrl\, historian at the University 
 of Virginia\, discusses his new book\, The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft\,
  Exploitation\, and Dispossession in America\, exploring a long-hidden his
 tory of overtaxation of Black property that has extracted wealth from Amer
 icans already long marginalized. He traces the roots of a discriminatory r
 egime of local tax agencies reaching back to Reconstruction and up to the 
 present.\n\nJosh Scott\, Director of Policy and Organizing at Virginia Com
 munity Voice\, leads efforts to write a new kind of history. Spearheading 
 citywide adoption of the RVA Thrives Equitable Development Scorecard\, he 
 works to amplify the Southside community's vision for growth and push deve
 lopers to think holistically and inclusively about their projects.\n\nVirg
 inia Community Voice partnered with HOME of VA on our most recent report a
 bout racial bias in appraisals and displacement of Black residents from Ri
 chmond. Our conversation will explore connections between The Black Tax an
 d this work as well.\n\nCopies of The Black Tax will be available for sale
  at the event courtesy of Fountain Bookstore\, an independent bookseller i
 n Richmond.\n\nRegister now!\n\n&nbsp\;\nPresented in partnership with the
  Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia and Virginia Communi
 ty Voice.\n\n
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LOCATION:Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia\, 122 W Leigh
  St\, Richmond\, VA\, 23220\, United States
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