Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, Columnist

Next Juneteenth, Let’s Have More Black Economists

The American Economic Association’s training program is an example worth building on.

June 17, 2022 at 7:30 AM EDT

Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe is the founder and president of the Women’s Institute for Science, Equity and Race, and co-editor of the Review of Black Political Economy. Her research focuses on gender and racial inequality, diversity in science and the demography of higher education.

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This weekend's Juneteenth holiday, which commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved Black people in Texas learned of their freedom, should also present America with a challenge: How to address the deep economic disparities that, more than 150 years later, still divide the nation by race?

One part of the solution: Get more Black people involved in crafting economic policy.

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