When you hear about "the working class," you probably think of people that voted for Donald Trump, or you picture white people. But the working class is not a monolith. Newsy sat down with Robert Patterson, the chair of Georgetown University's Department of African American Studies, to discuss the "black working class" and find out why we don't see more coverage of them.
Who Is The Black Working Class? We Asked An Expert
The chair of Georgetown University's Department of African American Studies discusses the black working class and why it's not covered more often.
Posted at 9:44 AM, Jan 03, 2018
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