A Bloomberg Quicktake episode featuring Professor Christopher Berry from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy has been nominated for the 43rd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards. The documentary “The Systemic Overtaxing of Black Homes in America,” is part of Bloomberg’s series The Pay Check and looks at the effect of regressive property taxes on homeownership for Black Americans.

In the episode, Berry, who directs the Center for Municipal Finance at Harris, describes his research on the unjust nature of property assessments that lead to overtaxed homes. Assessors, he found, will systematically assign a higher value to a modest property than the true price of the home. The property taxes on those homes often rise to unfeasible amounts for their owners, causing tens of thousands of tax foreclosures across the United States.

The documentary relies upon Berry’s comprehensive and years-long project examining property taxes across the US, as well as on investigative reporting from Bloomberg’s Jason Grotto, who has delivered groundbreaking coverage of these issues and Professor Berry’s work.

In the episode, Berry connects the state of US property taxes to the long history of racial segregation and red lining policies in the country. According to Berry and his research, these systems of assessment and property taxation consistently produce racially disparate outcomes. Black neighborhoods are hit the hardest by the flawed and unfair assessments.

“This falls in a category of hardships that I think are in the everyday experience of African Americans that aren’t always recognized by others until they are documented with data,” Berry says in the documentary.

The feature was one of five nominees in the Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Coverage Category. Other nominees include CBS’s 60 Minutes, the New York Times, and NPR. The awards will be presented on Thursday, September 29 at the Emmy’s Documentary Event.