Why the Richest Black Family in Chicago is really SO POWERFUL

Old Money, Black Billionaires, Generational Wealth He grew up in a tin-roofed house on the muddy banks of the Mississippi River. His father was killed in a sawmill accident when he was six years old. His mother worked as a washerwoman and a cook in the levee camps. There was no high school in his town for Black children , so when he finished the eighth grade, he repeated it. Because staying in school, any school, was better than giving up. And then one day, he borrowed $500 against his mother's furniture. With that $500, he built the most powerful Black media empire in American history. He put the faces of Black Americans on magazine covers at a time when the rest of the publishing industry pretended those faces didn't exist. He reached forty percent of every Black household in America. He made the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans , becoming the first African American ever to do so. In today’s video we look at Why the Richest Black Family in Chicago is really SO POWERFUL....Keep watching to see Old Money, Black Billionaires, Generational Wealth. #blackexcellence #hiddentruth #wealthbuilding