APM’s Marketplace, NPR’s pseudo-conservative business focused show, has been running segments on innovators and has been covering black innovators in specific
APM’s Marketplace, NPR’s pseudo-conservative business focused show, has been running segments on innovators and has been covering black innovators in specific during February to coincide with Black History Month.
Yesterday, they turned their lens on RVA’s own historically awesome Maggie Walker and her work starting one of the first African-American friendly banks. There’s lots of Richmond voices in the piece – Elvatrice Belsches, an author and historian and Ethan Bullard of the Maggie Walker Historic Site.
The piece tells the history of Walker and talks about the impacts she made in the community, as well as the struggles she went through. It’s pretty interesting, and have a listen read the write up here.
