Dedrick Asante-Muhammad is Chief of Membership, Policy, and Equity at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies. This op-ed was adapted from Inequality.org and distributed by OtherWords.org.
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