Anyone who has been an entrepreneur will tell you the experience can be rewarding, but it can also be grueling. Each reason has its pluses and minuses. So when I was writing the cover story for this issue, which has the dual theme of Entrepreneurship and Education, I thought about what it must be like to be an entrepreneur who is denied the opportunity to choose which path he or she would like to take.
That’s exactly what the U.S. government has admitted happened to many black farmers over the history of our country. They started out with high hopes of owning their land, selling their products, making a profit and creating a legacy to pass down to their children. But their struggles with unfair business practices resulted in generations being denied a chance at wealth. One of our local attorneys got involved — and he wrote a book about the experience. Greg Francis shares his story on Page 12.
