Our Black Year in America's Racially Divided Economy

Maggie Anderson is the author of Our Black Year: One Family's Quest To Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy, the story of her Chicago family's experiment in conscious consumerism. The experience led her to found of The Empowerment Experiment Foundation, and she has become the leader of a self-help economics movement that supports quality black businesses and urges consumers, especially other middle and upper class African Americans, to proactively and publicly support them. She received her BA from Emory University and her JD and MBA from the University of Chicago. She lives in Oak Park, Illinois, with her husband, John, and their two daughters. She will discuss her "Empowerment Experiment," and look at some of the challenges African American entrepreneurs face. Part of the National Affairs Series.