Jeremy Ryan

From Bloomberg John Rogers was a Wall Street pioneer during a decade of Black advancement, but his success reveals a divide within Black America that has only grown wider. Illustration: Matt Williams for Bloomberg Many Americans worry about the wealth gap between Black and White America. Less noticed is a divide that has grown even faster: the one within Black America. The top 10% of Black earners now make almost 10 times what the bottom 10% make, a wider gap than among Whites or Hispanics....

From the show notes... "Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Kaufman — director of the School of Journalism at Northeastern University — joins me to talk about his new book, "When America Roared: How the 1980s Saved, Then Broke the Country and Led Us to Today." We get into Reagan's media deregulation, the death of the Fairness Doctrine, Jack Welch and the rise of mass layoffs, the Federalist Society's origins, and how so much of what's broken today traces straight back to decisions made...

A sold-out event, interviewed by Jill Abramson, former executive editor of The New York Times! Thank you, Brookline Booksmith, for hosting such a memorable evening.