Majora Carter on Rewriting the Black American Dream to Building Better Communities at Home
Channel: The Disruptors - Science, Technology and Ethics
Date: 2020-06-23

Majora Carter (@MajoraCarter) is an American urban revitalization strategist and broadcast producer/host from the South Bronx in New York whose career has spanned environment, economy, social mobility, and real estate development.

Majora's work has won major awards including a MacArthur 'genius' Grant, a Peabody Award, the Rudy Bruner Award Silver Medal, nine honorary doctorates, and is quoted on the walls of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture: “Nobody should have to move out of their neighborhood to live in a better one.”

Full episode ----   https://disruptors.fm/185-rewriting-the-black-american-dream-to-building-better-communities-at-home-majora-carter

In today's episode we discuss:

- Black Lives Matter and the big issue with housing inequality
- Why owning communities is such a big part of improving them
- Majora's work with greenification and better urban areas
- The role of investment in changing a city's culture
- What steps can the US take to righting past racial wrongs
- Why the future of cities and urbanization is a bit more local
- Which narratives around health and wealth contribute most to racial inequality
- Why inner city brain drain makes everything all the worse
- How to use triple bottom line businesses to better the world
- What systemic racism looks like from a successful black woman's perspective


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