What could you do if your data was working for you and not against you? With Bloomberg delivering

enterprise data directly to your systems, you get easy access to the details you want, optimized for

higher level analysis, and financial data experts committed to helping you maximize your every move.

Our data is made for more, so you can show the world what you're made of. Visit Bloomberg.com slash enterprise data to learn more.

Last year, like a lot of black Americans, I started thinking more about our collective history in America,

and my own place than it.

My family had a plot of land in East Texas near a town called Mount Pleasant.

I grew up in Arizona, and as far as I was concerned, Texas was another planet.

Big hats, rodeos, that showed Dallas.

We drove through Mount Pleasant once, but I don't remember much.

As I got older, my dad would call and talk about the Texas property.

He daydream about all the ways that might one day give him a financial cushion.

How would buy a better life for him and my brother, who has a disability, how there might be

oil on the land or some kind of rare timber. And if I'm being honest, he planted some of those

thoughts in my head too. Then came the pandemic and George Floyd, and I started thinking more about inequality in America,

and because I'm a business journalist, the racial wealth gap.

I started digging into my past, and Texas.

I learned that the land would never be our ticket to prosperity.

It was gone.

When I found out why, I realized my family's story isn't much different from other

black Americans. I started wondering, how did other black people build wealth in America?

And how did they hold on to it? Or, like my family, failed to hold on to it. That's what we'll be exploring on this season of the paycheck, the racial wealth gap.

...