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Why Don't More Financial Advisors Look Like Lazetta Braxton"? - How to Address the Industry's Race Problem More black families are entering the economic mainstream, have more income and are saving for college and retirement.... They need advice and [the financial services industry] is passing up millions of dollars by not reaching out to them. -Rev. Anthony Evans
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The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI) foresaw the mortgage crisis that hit the U.S. in 2008 a number of years before anyone even suspected such a cataclysmic event would happen.
Within the African-American community, at any rate.
As far back as 2004, “our pastors were calling us up, concerned at the number of people buying houses and asking for dedications [a church blessing],” says Reverend Anthony Evans, NBCI's president. “They did not recall many of these individuals having steady and consistent employment and that set off a red flag.” Click here to read more ››
Michelle Singletary - The Color of Money
Michelle Singletary is a nationally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post. Her column, "The Color of Money" is an award-winning column, which is now carried in about 120 newspapers across the country including the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Miami Herald, Boston Globe, Tampa Tribune and Philadelphia Inquirer.