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Equality Today
• African American family
Oprah Winfrey,
income is about $30,000, it
worth $2.7 billion.
is $49,000 for whites.
• More African American incomes are
below the poverty level than whites.
• African Americans’ net wealth (value of
everything they own) is only 1/10 that
of whites.
• Only about 15% of African Americans
graduate from college, about 25% of
whites graduate.