The Barber of Little Rock

  • Documentary
7/21/2023
35

One man's fight for a just economy

Explores the racial wealth gap in America through the story of People Trust, a homegrown community bank in Little Rock, Arkansas, working to uplift a community that has been largely excluded from the financial engines that create wealth.

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      • Geronimo1967

        Arlo Washington is one of those inspirational men who believes that the best way for a community to help itself is, well, for it to help itself. To that end he initially set up a hairdressing college offering training before he realised there was potential to set up a community banking operation that could lend to local people to help them get their business off the ground - without making through-the-nose interest payments. It's a serious enterprise, they don't just give money away - those applying need to have a proper business plan and a strategy for repaying those loans so they can be reinvested elsewhere. He also attempts to identify the causes of what he causes "economic segregation" and that's painted with interviews from local peopl...

        March 22, 2024

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