#LastBlackWallStreet

“For far too long, many Washingtonians have felt left out or locked out of the progress happening around them. A Fair Shot: A Toolkit for African American Prosperity serves as a starting point to help more African American get on the pathway to the middle class,” said Director of the Mayor’s Office on African American Affairs Rahman Branch whose government agency remains unstaffed and unfunded.

The highest concentration of Black owned businesses left in the city are between Anacostia & Congress Heights on the MLK Ave SE corridor constituting the #LastBlackWallStreet & are all at-risk of becoming the next Shaw & suffer the same fate of the rest of the city west of the river.

Think Local First director and former director of the DC Fiscal Policy & current DC Council Chairman candidate joins We Act Radio in search of a non-existent retention plan for longtime DC residents & small businesses in one of the cities with the greatest disparity in wealth in the nation. #RIP Ormenta Newsome