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This is a Bloomberg Radio Special, Being Black on Wall Street.

I'm Shannale Bassick.

Over the next hour, we explore what it means to be black in the white world of finance.

You know Wall Street is a close society and it's very hard to get in and stay in.

You were going to have to be comfortable in some cases being the only and being the first.

So many of us have gone there with the hopes of achieving success.

The setbacks and the stereotypes faced within the walls of Wall Street.

I said, you got three strikes against you.

You're young, you're woman, and you're black.

He told me point blank that Bowman Sachs wouldn't hire me.

I wanted to achieve the American dream and I encountered issues that held me back.

And as the calls for change grow louder, what it will take for the industry to finally reform. You know we've made progress in the

last decade but we're not where we want to be we're not satisfied people to say enough and

they're taking a stand. George Floyd when we saw him murdered in a public lynching you cannot see it and I think the whole country has

Woken up to say things have to change

That's all straight ahead on this Bloomberg radio special, Being Black on Wall Street.

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