Oscar nominee ‘Barber of Little Rock’ exposes wealth gap in US

Arlo Washington lives in Little Rock, Arkansas – a city infamous for resisting school desegregation in 1957. Now, the city is still racially, economically, and even physically divided by a highway. On one side of the freeway is the heart of the city’s Black community, where homes are boarded up. Across the interstate sits a nicer neighborhood that is predominantly white. Washington, who works as a barber, is trying to close that wealth gap in his Little Rock neighborhood.

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