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The time for a federal racial equity stimulus package is now OPINION: Out of the urgent need to decouple America’s vision of opportunity from historic racism and oppression, this moment calls for Congress to advance a multi-year federal racial equity stimulus package John H. Jackson (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images) The story of America is the power of common people coming together around a vision of opportunity, democracy, and a better way of life for generations to come. However, from our earliest beginnings, that vision was executed with instruments of brutal and legalized...

Wealth gap? a lot of different wealth gaps out there? how do you equalize at all? well, this is clearly racial pandering of the worst sort. but it's designed to peel voters away from joe biden. who this weekend was still trying to apologize for his, let's face it, terrible debate performance, and then reinforce -- he was trying -- his obama bona fides. >> the problems that we have today. that is why i am proud to work alongside barack. i don't say president obama. two weeks ago, somehow gave the impression to people, i am again, yes, i was, i regretted. >> laura: and michelle obama was given a...

That is a core constituency for the democrat party that still favors biden.e this weekend, kamala harris spoke at the essence festival in new orleans. she unveiled a new $100 billion housing plan that will fund down payments on homes and closing costs for african-americans. >> so a typical black family has just $10 of wealth for every $100 held by a white family. so we must right that wrong. after generations of discrimination, give black families a real shot at homeownership, by taking these steps, we can shrink their wealth gap between black and white households by at least one-third. >> lau...

Struggles during the '80s and 90s for folks coming out in the multicultural era, the hip-hop era, was to be represented, and now we're represented really at the highest levels of the global economy. but if you're buying these headphones thinking we're going to get to more of that post racial america, maybe we might have to rethink that a little bit. transactional exchanges are shallow. i give you money. you give me headphones. are we really having a conversation yet? and the interesting thing is on the one hand, the images we see are more segregated than ever. the fact that apple has to borrow...

bales is the suspect in the killing deaths of afghan civilians. there's no explanation so far why he could face 17 murder charges. bales is being held in a military prison in the u.s. the u.s., france, and other countries are condemning the overthrow of the government in mali. there's been no sign of mali's president since renegade soldiers staged the coup on thursday. the borders are closed. those are the top stories from cnn, the world's news leader. i'm zain verjee and "world business today" starts now. good morning, from cnn london, i'm nina dos santos. and good afternoon f...