Mapping Black Wealth

Mapping Pathways to Building Collective Black Wealth is an Interactive Tool that shines a light on a broad base of Black households, including the nearly 2 million Black households in the American South with zero or negative net worth. While many of these data points describe negative conditions, to understand which solutions are the most impactful, it is important to first understand the underlying historical and present-day determinants and drivers impacting the ability of Black communities to create, protect, and sustain wealth.

This map looks at three interconnected pathways for building wealth, known as the R3 Framework. We must generate new income and assets through Revenue, safeguard those gains through Resilience, and pursue systemic Repair for the harms of dispossession and exclusion.