The Daily Shaarli
July 6, 2020
"Douglass is buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester. After his death, he became the first Black person in the United States be memorialized with a statue. That monument now resides at Frederick Douglass Memorial Plaza at Highland Park in the city. Another sculpture, "Let's Have Tea," portrays Douglass with friend and women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony in Rochester's Susan B. Anthony Square. Thirteen additional Douglass statues — including the one at Maplewood Park — were placed around Rochester in 2018, in remembrance of his 200th birthday."
More than 150 years ago, when the corporation as we know it today was still new, Marx saw in it both the essence of capitalism and a prefiguration of socialism: “The abolition of the capitalist mode of production within the capitalist mode of production itself.”
Differences in wealth accounted for 50% to 79% of the total gap in RESP participation between families in the top and bottom income quartiles, depending on the method and dataset used.
COVID-19 pandemic generally had a stronger impact on visible minority participants’ ability to meet financial obligations or essential needs than for White participants, even after taking into account group differences in job loss, immigration status, pre-COVID employment status, education, and other demographic characteristics.