One week to the day after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in 1968, the president signed the Fair Housing Act into law. The date is commemorated annually by the naming of April as National Fair Housing Month.
The federal government itself contributed to discrimination and segregation in housing, and it's been a hard legacy to undo. Just how hard is detailed in Richard Rothstein's 2017 book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. There's good reason for wanting to forget the history, but we explore it in an extended live conversation with Richard Rothstein.