Robert Blackwell, Jr.
President, Electronic Knowledge Interchange, Chicago, IL

"I wanted to move into a black neighborhood to see if I could help young African-American men in particular. I thought I should create an economic incentive for other people to move into the neighborhood. So we got some economic integration in the neighborhood."

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