Heather McGhee The stubborn belief that needs to shift So what is the stubborn belief that needs to shift now for us to make progress against inequality? I found my first clues in a series of psychology studies. Psychologists…
Heather McGhee Today our schools are nearly as segregated as they were before In my gut, I’ve always known that laws are merely expressions of a society’s dominant beliefs. It’s the beliefs that must shift in order for outcomes to change. When policies…
Heather McGhee Everybody wasn’t operating in their own rational economic self-interest On the day Donald Trump was to take the oath of office in 2017, I’d been the president of Demos for three years. I was gearing up to fight against…
Heather McGhee Affirmative action The idea of affirmative action looms large in the white imagination and has been a passion among conservative activists. Some white people even believe that Black people get to go…
Heather McGhee The zero sum is a story by wealthy interests for their own profit In decade after decade, threats of job competition - between men and women, immigrants and native born. Black and white - have perennially revived the fear of loss at another’s…
Heather McGhee Racial hierarchy Most Euro-Americans were not, and would likely never be, the wealthy aristocrat who had every social and economic privilege in Europe. Eternal slavery provided a new caste that even the…
