Season II / Episode 2: Chosen Friends & Family—Bridging the Racial Wealth Gap
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This episode features Kevin Jones, a successful serial entrepreneur who, with his wife, has built media and event businesses centered on niche communities—including the influential SOCAP Conference. He is currently focussed, amongst other efforts, on helping communities of faith take seriously the call to economic justice through faithfinance.net.
For generations, the systematic exclusion of Black families from access to home ownership, white collar jobs, college, and voting has resulted in a widening racial wealth gap that has yet to be overcome. According to the Brookings Institute, in 2019 the median white household’s wealth was 7.8 times that of the typical Black household. So what does this mean for Black entrepreneurs emerging in 2022 in the United States?
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