Walking across separated neighborhoods with Richard Rothstein

Carlos Explains America

On this week's episode, Carlos talks to Richard Rothstein, Senior Fellow at the Haas Institute at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and author of "The Color of Law", about the United States' history of housing and residential segregation. Rothstein tells the story of neighborhood separation, Jim Crow Laws, and policies that kept black Americans from opportunities many died for during the Civil War.