Articles

• “The Fastest Growing Group of Entrepreneurs in America.” June 29, 2015 By: Amy Haimerl

• “Blacks are Challenged to Buy from Black-Owned Businesses to Close Gap.” (NY Times) November 15, 2015 By: Tatiana Walk Morris

• “Minorities, Women, Get Bigger Slice of Chicago Construction Pie.” (Chicago Sun Times) February 9th 2016 By: Fran Spielman

• “Black Wealth in America Hardly Exists.” (Inequality.org)October 18, 2016 By: Antonio Moore

• “Chicago’s Racial Wealth Gap far worse than U.S Average, report finds.”(Chicago Tribune) January 31, 2017 By: Gail MarksJarvis

• “Black Women have to work 7 Months into 2017, to be paid the same as White Men in 2016.”(Economic Policy Institute) July 28, 2017 By: Valerie Wilson, Janelle Jones, Kayla Blado, Elise Gould

• “Black Caucus Chairman wants Income Gaps Lifted from MBE Program.”(Chicago Sun Times) September 26, 2017 By: Fran Spielman

• “Chicago Confronts Procurement Reform and Finds the Hardest Parts Still to Come.” (Governing)December 11, 2017 By: Liz Farmer

• “Ida B. Wells finally gets a top honor with street name.” February 11, 2019 By: Mary Mitchell

Reports

• “Lost: The Crisis Of Jobless and Out Of School Teens and Young Adults In Chicago, Illinois and the U.S.” (UIC Great Cities Institute)

• “The African American Consumer 2014 Report” (The Chicago Urban League)

• “Black-White Wage Gap Expands With Rising Wage Inequality.” (Economic Policy Institute) September 20, 2016 By: Valerie Wilson and William M. Rodgers III

• “Racial Wealth Divide in Chicago.”(CFED) January, 2017

• “Contracting for Equity: Best Local Government Practices that Advance Racial Equity in Government Contracting and Procurement.” (Insight: Community Economic Development) By: Tim Lohrentz

• "Dreams Deferred: How Enriching the 1% Widens the Racial Wealth Divide" By: Dedrick Asante-Muhammad Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie Sabrina Terry. January 14, 2019. 

Videos

• TED Talk with Maggie Anderson surrounding Chicago’s Economic Racial Divide