Hi, I'm Alyssa Milano, and this is Sorry Not Sorry. A new report reveals life expectancy in the United States fell by a full year, and that's the largest drop since World War II.

For Black Americans, the drop is nearly three times worse.

The numbers were just as bleak for Black mothers.

According to a recent CDC report, in 2021, the rate of pregnancy-related

deaths of black women was more than double the rate of white women. There is a real wealth gap

in America, one that corresponds with race. And now a new report is revealing just how wide

that gap truly is. The report by McKinsey and Company shows a stunning wage gap totaling billions of dollars.

Alabama has apparently been intentionally discriminating against black voters, and it's not

just me or other members in the media saying that a federal court said exactly that

in a ruling that was released yesterday.

Hello, everybody, and welcome to a new episode of Sorry Not Sorry Live.

I'm Alyssa Milano here with Ben Jackson, and we are so glad that you're able to join us.

The early part of this decade seemed like it might signify a realignment of social and cultural power of black Americans. But the realities of that

power and how it translates into meaningful justice and social change are less clear and perhaps

less optimistic, especially now in the second Trump era, where everything, which does not perpetuate white power,

is treated as suspect and anti-American.

To discuss the shifting dynamics and a path forward to meaningful change, we've asked

Andre Perry onto the show.

Andre is a senior fellow and a director of the Center for

Community Uplift at the Brookings Institute and a professor of practice of economics at Washington

University in St. Louis. He is also nationally known and respected as a commentator on race structural inequality and

education and the author of the new book Black Power Scorecard, Measuring the Racial Gap and What

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