“For Black Americans, the New Deal left an ambivalent legacy that does not offer an easy template for change.”

For Black Americans, the New Deal left an ambivalent legacy that does not offer an easy template for change.

In an article for Bloomberg CityLab, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning Willow Lung-Amam suggests that, in healing America, the Biden administration must carefully examine Roosevelt’s New Deal to understand and reconcile its profound racial impact, and how borrowing from the Green New Deal can help gain the support needed for change. “Biden should borrow from the Green New Deal to ensure that communities most affected by the policies and historically excluded from their benefits become collaborators in their construction, and the primary and explicit beneficiaries of their outcomes.” Read the story in the CityLab.