How Closing the Black Wealth Gap Helps Everyone

Black and POC communities have historically faced systemic barriers to growing wealth both individually and as a group, creating a gap of disparity in financial assets and equity between white and Black households.

The idea of Black Wealth is more than just dollars in a bank account. It’s access to opportunity, ability to build legacy, and overall community elevation. For generations in the U.S., Black and POC communities have faced redlining, discriminatory lending, and barriers in education, employment, and corporate leadership systems that blocked that access to capital.

Today, changes are happening in banking, in the workplace, in policy, and in communities to finally close that gap.

Hosts Danor Gerald and Lonzo Liggins are joined in the studio with two guests: Ashley D Bell and Sui Lang L Panoke. Bell is chairman of Redemption Bank, the first Black-owned bank west of the Mississippi, and part of the first Black-led investment group in the Western U.S. Panoke is founder of Rethink International, an organization designed to challenge people to rethink how and what they think.

Join the discussion to see how we can work today to close the Black wealth gap.