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Booked for Connection
Wed, Mar 25
|New Orleans
Let's Talk! Have you ever read a book that demands that you discuss it with someone? Here's your chance to discuss great books while making new friends.
Time & Location
Mar 25, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
New Orleans, 139 Allen Toussaint Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70124, USA
Guests
About the Event
Author Jessica Norwood shares: When I look at our economy today, one thing I see clearly is a lack of love for Black people. The reality of the racial wealth gap makes this truth undeniable: a Black person has the least amount of wealth in the U.S.—just one-eighth of the average White person’s wealth. This relative lack of wealth comes from generations of financial exclusion and racial terror and impacts everything from quality of education and healthcare to access to wealthy networks, political power, and, of course, business capital. Due to pervasive and ongoing systemic racism, Black founders are denied business loans two times more than any other group and receive less than 1% in venture capital.
A Black person in the U.S. has just one-eighth of the average White person’s wealth.
Yet, the myth of the American Dream has indoctrinated us to believe that entrepreneurship and capitalism will save…
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