How a highway in Tulsa displaced and dispossessed Black residents

Marketplace Morning Report

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4.5 • 808 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In yesterday's podcast, we brought you the history of how a white mob devastated Tulsa's Greenwood District during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Afterward, Black residents rebuilt and flourished, but what would come next would largely destroy the neighborhood — and much of its wealth — for good: the construction of the I-244 highway. But first, President Donald Trump is headed to Capitol Hill to get the GOP tax bill over the finish line.

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0:00.0	The racial wealth gap in the U.S. has grown wider.
0:05.5	From Marketplace, I'm Sabri Beneshore in for David Bruncacchum.
0:08.6	First up, President Donald Trump is headed to Capitol Hill this morning to try to get the big GOP tax bill over the finish line.
0:15.0	It would, among other things, extend the 2017 tax cuts and increased defense and border security spending.
0:22.3	Trump is scheduled to address House Republicans who are having trouble ironing out their differences. Marketplaces, Nancy Marshall
0:27.0	Gensar, has more. President Trump has to convince two very different groups of Republicans to
0:32.7	compromise and vote for the bill. In one corner, there are the hardliners. They want to partly pay for the tax
0:38.5	breaks with cuts to Medicaid. They want to speed up work requirements for some Medicaid recipients
0:44.0	and change the formula that determines how much the federal government pays states for Medicaid.
0:49.6	In the opposite corner, moderate Republicans. They're worried their constituents would be kicked off of
0:55.1	Medicaid. Blue state moderates want a cap on the deductibility of state and local taxes to be raised.
1:01.9	The House Rules Committee has scheduled an unusual 1 AM hearing for tomorrow to consider changes to the bill.
1:09.0	That's designed to tee the legislation up for a full House vote before Memorial Day.
1:14.0	Once the bill finishes, it's long slog through the House. It heads to the Senate, which is expected to make its own changes.
1:21.4	Some Republican senators have already said they won't vote for the House version. I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace.
1:41.0	The killing of George Floyd five years ago drew attention to racial inequality in the U.S.
1:47.0	And since then, the wealth gap between black and white Americans has actually widened.
1:51.0	The median black family now holds about 15% as much wealth as the typical white family.
1:57.0	History laid the groundwork for this.
2:00.0	Over generations, black Americans were blocked
2:02.7	from acquiring and passing on homes and businesses by Jim Crow violence and segregation,
2:07.6	and after World War II, by highway building in urban renewal that ravaged thriving black
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