No more money, please

Published: Oct. 14, 2021, 8:12 p.m.

The more Morgan Curtis learned about the source of her family\u2019s multi-generation wealth \u2014 from gold mining, to fossil fuel investment, to slave ownership \u2014 the less she wanted anything to do with it. When she started to give away half a million dollars to social justice organizations in her late twenties, her dad told her he may write her out of her future inheritance. In this episode, we hear from them both.

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