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Thank you. From KQED. From KQED. From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim. Coming up on forum, Monday is the deadline to file our taxes, and as we look at what provisions of the tax code apply to our particular situation,

top of mind might not be how the code, which is a reflection of social and economic policy decisions, intersects with race.

That intersection wasn't top of mind either for Emory University Law Professor Dorothy Brown when she decided to become a tax lawyer.

If anything, she thought going into the field would help her get away from painful experiences of race.

But Brown says she's never been more wrong. Race and the tax code.

This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Dorothy Brown became a tax lawyer to avoid dealing with race.

I learned early on, she writes, that people might look at me and see black,

but as far as tax law was concerned, the only color that mattered was green.

But it soon became clear to Brown that tax law and race were deeply intertwined,

that tax policies disadvantage black Americans while they subsidized their white peers and worsened the racial wealth gap. Her book is

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