Buying Black Then And Now: What’s The History Of Black-Owned Business Signs In Chicago?

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

From boycotts to hashtags, Curious City traces the history of a 150-year-old message urging the black community to support black businesses.

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0:00.0	Planet Money helps you understand the economy.
0:02.7	We find the people at the center of the story.
0:05.1	Garbage in New York, that was like a controlled substance.
0:08.6	We show you how money influences everything.
0:11.6	Tell me what you like by telling me how you spend your money.
0:15.5	And we dig until we get answers.
0:17.5	I had a bad feeling you're going to bring that up.
0:19.4	Planet Money finds out.
0:20.7	All you have to do is listen.
0:22.4	The Planet Money podcast from NPR.
0:26.2	It's Curious City, where we take your questions about Chicago and the region.
0:30.7	And investigate.
0:31.9	Report.
0:32.5	Explore.
0:33.4	From WB.EZ.
0:36.4	I'm WB.EZ producer Gabrielle Collins, and we're exploring one of the very first
0:41.5	questions we've ever received at Curious City. Freelance reporter Kim Bellware was riding her bike
0:47.4	around Bronzeville and saw a few signs that said something like support black-owned businesses
0:53.1	or this is a black-owned business.
0:55.2	So that got her wondering about the need for these kinds of signs.
0:59.1	I wanted to know the history and the significance of signs that I saw on the South Side,
1:04.6	calling the community to support black-owned businesses.
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