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Case Study: How Black Businesses Can Build Competitive Advantage For Anchor Procurement With The Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative

Black-owned small businesses often struggle to reach major-funder “anchor institutions” in their communities that contribute significant resources to support other entrepreneurs. But that is a solveable problem.

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Case Study: How The El Paso Hispanic Chamber Of Commerce Is Ensuring Capital Readiness For Rural Hispanic Entrepreneurs

All rural business owners face special challenges, but none more so than those from social groups that have long been fenced out of key financial services. We’re solving that problem.

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Race, Jobs, and the Economy November 2023 Update: Strong Economic Indicators For African Americans Yet Pessimism In Alleviating Racial Inequality

What can the November jobs report tell us about the future of racial economic inequality?

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The Racial Wealth Divide and Black Billionaires Across the Globe

As conversations regarding the rapid concentration of wealth dominate economic and political discourse, it’s worth analyzing the details of wealth within the billionaire class. However, little attention has been paid to billionaires of African descent.  Twenty-four people of African descent have appeared in the Forbes billionaires list. People of African descent have historically been locked

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KeyBank’s Betrayal Of Black And Low-Income Homebuyers Continued In 2022

KeyBank continued its years-long retreat from promoting Black and low-income homeownership in 2022, an analysis of the most recent federal data on mortgage lending reveals. Black borrowers made up just 2.6% of the Cleveland-based bank’s home purchase mortgage lending in 2022, down from 3% the year prior. KeyBank has been pulling back from supporting Black

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The Racial Wealth Divide and US Black Billionaires

When the first Black billionaires emerged, most stemmed from the entertainment industry.  In 2001, Black Entertainment Television cofounder Bob Johnson was the world’s wealthiest Black person with an estimated net worth of $1.6 billion. By 2021, Johnson’s estimated fortune had fallen by more than half – meaning he no longer appeared on annual magazine lists

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Questions About The New CRA Rules? Join NCRC For A Conversation With Michael Barr, Martin Gruenberg And Michael Hsu

Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr, FDIC Board Chairman Martin Gruenberg and Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu will discuss the new Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) rules in a live conversation with National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) President and CEO Jesse Van Tol next Friday, November 3rd. Interested parties can register for

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