Pocket Sized Pep Talks

Reclaiming Your Community

Episode Summary

The subtitle says it all: "You Don't Have To Move Out Of Your Neighborhood To Live In A Better One." Peabody Award winning broadcaster, and author Majora Carter sits down with Rob and talks about her new book, "Reclaiming Your Community - You Don't Have To Move Out Of Your Neighborhood To Live In A Better One," and discusses low-status communities and strategies to retain talent to help them emerge from economic challenges.

Episode Notes

In this Pocket Sized Pep Talk, you'll learn:

How Majora's book found her.
What makes this particular book different from all the others on this subject.
The connection between talent-retention, and reclaiming your community.
The, "unintended consequences" of the civil rights successes of the 1960's.
Gentrification, and the challenges it has had on poor urban areas.
How to truly improve housing in poor urban areas and attract new businesses.
The vital importance of black owned businesses.
Majora creating a business of her own, within her community called, "The Boogie Down Grind."
Key mentors in her life.

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