Gaskin: Envisioning a modern Black Wall Street

Athletes such as Muhammad Ali, Tommy Smith and Colin Kaepernick have used their platform to advance political causes. As we talk about self-determination and closing the racial wealth gap, what would it mean for today’s millionaires and billionaires such as Michael Jordan, Lebron James, Magic Johnson, Tyler Perry, Oprah Winfrey, Jay-Z, Robert Smith, David Steward, Rihanna, among others to use their money, power and influence to create modern Black Wall Streets across America? Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics is one of the first to have brought up the idea...