One On One Segment 28 Ebony Reed

Swope Health announces a new edition of its podcast, One on One with Swope Health, featuring Ebony Reed, journalist and media executive, and also a bestselling author of Fifteen Cents on the Dollar: How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap.
Eric Wesson, founder and publisher of The Next Page KC, a newspaper focused on the Black community, hosts the show’s conversations with Kansas Citians about issues of importance to the community’s health and wellbeing.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Ebony describes her childhood in a “family of communicators” and how journalism and communications are an essential part of her. After receiving her degrees in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia, she went on to work for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Detroit News, the Associated Press and the Wall Street Journal.
Ebony described the genesis of the book as a series of conversations with her co-author Louise Story, beginning in the days after the murder of George Floyd. The conversations expanded to the economic crisis of 2008-9 and its impact on Black families. In the course of their discussions, they realized there wasn’t detailed reporting on the economic impact to Black families, explaining the origins of the Black-White wealth gap from slavery, redlining, and economic policies through to the contemporary lives of Black families today.
The book takes its name from the fact that a typical Black family has 15 cents in wealth for every $1 a typical White family has.