Black America: Our Challenges, Our Progress and Our Future

There is no single Black American experience.

Black America includes different generations, incomes, political beliefs, professions, neighborhoods, family structures, religions, cultures, and perspectives.

Yet there are also experiences, histories, challenges, achievements, and aspirations that deserve focused discussion.

That is the purpose of our Black America section.

Here we will talk about more than struggle.

We will talk about achievement.

More than discrimination.

We will talk about opportunity.

More than what other people think about Black America.

We will talk about what Black Americans think about themselves, their communities, their institutions, and their future.

Our conversations will explore education, HBCUs, entrepreneurship, homeownership, Black-owned businesses, generational wealth, family, politics, civil rights, culture, media representation, community development and much more.

We will celebrate progress without pretending every problem has been solved.

We will confront problems without pretending Black America is defined by them.

We will also challenge ourselves.

Because accountability cannot only be something we demand from government, corporations and institutions.

Strong communities also require us to examine our own choices, priorities and responsibilities.

The Bigger Question

The conversation should not simply be:

What is wrong with Black America?

It should also include:

What is working?

Who is building?

Who is succeeding?

What can we learn from them?

Where are opportunities being created?

How do we strengthen families and communities?

How do we build and preserve wealth?

What kind of future are we creating for the generations coming behind us?

Black America is not a single story.

This section intends to tell many of them.