Economic Empowerment is alive and well! | Our Community

John and Maggie Anderson read a black author's book to their children. Products made by black owned businesses are displayed on their table. (Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune / December 31, 2009)

It's been a year since John and Maggie Anderson embarked on a controversial adventure in empowerment to spend their money exclusively with African-American businesses in 2009. The Andersons estimated that they spent about 70 percent of their dollars, or slightly less than $70,000, with black-owned businesses in 2009. This year, they are pushing the experiment into what Maggie Anderson called "movement mode."

The Empowerment Experiment has been a one year journey in economic empowerment to demonstrat the power of supporting Black businesses. Over the course of that year, they have shared their message of empowerment all over the country.

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