Radical Collaboration Needed to Heal Black Wealth Gap

08/09/2020 36 min

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Episode Synopsis

In their July 27 show, Anne & Gillian examined the role that venture capital can and should  take in building Black wealth. Conventional VC has woefully underperformed -- Black entrepreneurs receive less than 1% of venture capital, and Black women a tiny fraction of that. The declining state of black wealth and resulting racial gap in the US was the topic of a Living Cities report in December 2019 (https://www.livingcities.org/resources). Authors Natalie Nixon and Peri Higgins guest to revisit and further reveal how to solve this looming crises for the US economy.