karen: today on cityline, preparing young people to succeed in the global economy. how to support black banks and room more wealth into the community. hello everyone. i'm karen holmes ward. welcome to cityline. the push for a black-owned businesses and bringing wealth into the black community. first, renowned artist paul good night helped alleviate dark memories of his time in the vietnam war through painting and drawing. he is a central artistic voice for a community he seeks to represent. here's the story.

without a voice you have no choice. >> for more than 40 years paul good nights art has spoken volumes. >> it could be political, cultural, religious. >> here in the south end his two-room studio color circle art overflows with paintings. they have been described by critics as shimmering in the w >> i studied the human body for years. architecturally it's probably one of the more difficult things to do. >> he has often painted portraits of athletes. in 1996 he designed the official poster for the atlantic games. he created art celebrating the

growing up in boston in a loving foster family, he begin drawing early. >> i grew up with five or six boys. art was not at the top of the list of masculinity. i played sports a lot. i always would gravitate towards the arts. i mb room because i was bad and i was really happy because nobody else could come to my room and i could start drawing. >> in 1969 drawing with his salvation after he served 14 harrowing months in vietnam. >> i couldn't speak when i came back from vietnam. the only motivation that i had in order to show people that i was cognizant is to draw.

with the forbidden idea of art as a career. >> the adjective before art was starving and the most successful artists were dead. >> the g.i. bill helped him pursue his calling. he was meant toward buying your list and found a community of artists of color who supported him as he developed his own creative voice. my environment is black. my culture is black. my people are the central reason i create. the freedom of having this voice. it was for a large body of people. >> his reputation grew. his art was featured on tv shows including the cosby show and

today good night remains prolific, wearing his trademark overalls. he draws every day and teaches figure drawing at the museum of fine arts. he credits his family especially his wife with much of his success. >> they are of what i do. >> global travel also introduces his work and his politics. he says he wants to build awareness. in 2012 -- >> i was able to ask the amputees to "draw something".

other recent work is inspired by news and social justice including in the crosshairs. he has faith in three truths about the ark of an artist life. fire, function and foundation. >> they test you a lot. function is where i am at this point. if the teacher who wants to learn you are still learning and at the same time you are teaching what you have learned. you have to give it back. foundation is the elder who finds the teacher that he can go in part and make sure that it's

>> i would like to be remembered as someone who solve more problems than he created. karen: next, how organizations are working to immerse young people in work experiences. stay tuned. we dance on the salsa team together, and it's like a lot of power in what we wear. when we're practicing if i don't feel good in what i'm wearing i don't look good. t.j.maxx has that variety. i can get a lot for my money. it's like "yay t.j.maxx!"

karen: welcome back. if it takes to village of -- to raise a child, it takes a community to educate one. citizen school is a nonprofit that works to expand kids horizons. >> lab coats, safety goggles. sixth-graders from boston's edwards middle school. they are learning first-hand what's like to work at biotech world headquarters in cambridge. the students are here thanks to citizen schools apprentice program. tracy callahan is the director of community labs.

we will really get to do some science. hopefully being able to do that science will. >> they are getting ready for a presentation to their biogenic mentors. >> they've been looking at different factors that affect how it functions. before coming here, emily was not a science fan. >> i didn't like it at all. it's like my favorite subject in school now. >> we are a science company and we hope to be here for a long time.

skins -- skills. >> for more than two decades citizen schools has been filling a void for dozens of kids in low income communities by expanding learning time. >> many of our children particularly middle school are going home to empty houses. they thought about using the capital that exists in theco to fill that time with enrichment and support. >> we are working with kids who might not normally have access to that. giving them a glimpse of a future they might not have known about is really valuable. >> some citizens students go to their apprenticeships.

they teach engineering design at schools and roxbury. >> they are preprogrammed with sensors. they have to write a computer program to make their robot work. >> i started screaming. >> it's fun and hard. you get to build and test it out. it's also hard. you have to agree and disagree on many things. >> i learned to work with other

i kind of improved my skills in science. >> teaching here is a great opportunity to give back to the community. >> they want to do it. they want to be successful. they are so engaged. it has been an absolute last. >> citizens says tracking shows many alumni follow a science or technology path into college and beyond. we call it a virtuous cycle when something impacts you so profoundly that you feel like coming back and creating the opportunity for someone else. >karen: with the help of their newest ceo and president, jr.

to succeed in the global economy. jr. achievement has been around for a long time. tell us how the mission has evolved over the years. guest: thank you for having me and letting me share the mission of the organization. jr. achievement started in anniversary. over the years we evolved to have 22 programs focusing on three areas. karen: acquiring the skills such as financial literacy is even more important in today's world than ever.

are financially literate. this means almost 50% of our population is not fully participating or contributing were benefiting to our economy. karen: 43% of the population don't fully participate in the economy. guest: we don't have the opportunity to take a the opportunities in our economy. that's where jr. achievement really steps in. karen: what drew you to jr. achievement? i know you just started. why did you want to take the lead. guest: the mission speaks very

a new educational system. i was one of the fortunate ones that found at home at another youth organization called the boys and girls club's. caring professionals who were investigated in my success is exactly what jr. achievement does. karen: you are talking about teaching business to young people k-12. that is important to build id they might want to go. guest: one of the most important things we do is almost all of our programs are delivered by bonds. not only are we providing great curriculum and training but also great role models. especially those of us who grew

make a call to all of us to spend more time in the classroom. a lot of these kids didn't grow up with parents who worked in the corporate world. having as there makes a huge difference. karen: give me an example of how it might work in today's world. guest: we have our stock market challenge. we will have 200 high school kids come together simulating a 60 day period of trading. the stock market. being part of the team. collaborating. making quick decisions. that's one hands-on opportunity we have coming up. we really look to combine expertise and curriculum with hands-on experience. karen: it's all the way up to

learn that piece of it. guest: a lot of our parents didn't grow up with the background to have that education and guidance that some of us were fortunate to find in other organizations. providing that for all children but especially for inner-city kids is something i'm passionate about and that we are committed to jr. achievement. karen: we look forward to your leadership. when we return, who is ready to

karen: one of the outgrowths of the black lives matter movement has been an economic effort to move wealth into black banks. challenge for african-americans and others to move just $100 to a black owned bank. it spread through social media. >> just $100. we all spent $100 in the course

i'm not even asking you to spend $100. i'm saying take it and put it in a bank. put it in the bank. and the following month take another $100. you are teaching yourself to save. you are teaching yourself basic economics. nobody's going to feed me. i'm going to save myself. i will take my dollars and put them into my account and learn how to save money. i will learn how to tell myself. this is about changing the way you think. karen: as of march 31 the number

one of them is based in boston. one united bank president terry williams joins us now. guest: tanks for having me. karen: killer mike really got something going. he's very politically active. guest: it has been amazing what we have seen since he made the call to action. bank and the largest black-owned bank in the country we really felt it. we went from opening 50 accounts a day to opening up to 1000 accounts a day. almost overnight. since it has only been a couple of months we have actually brought in anywhere from $13 million to $15 million in deposits. that has been huge.

what's important for us as a community and what we need to focus on and what we can do. one of the things that we know is that black dollars circulate in the black community for only six hours. if you look at the asian american community it circulates in the asian-american community for 28 days. days. compared to the black community for six hours. i see people get paid and go get a haircut and the money goes out to it doesn't give us an opportunity to build wealth with our own dollars. this movement to buy black and bank black as part of us saying we need to use our dollars more purposefully and use them to create wealth in our community.

, los angeles and miami. talk about the aggregate of black wealth in the united states. karen: we send $1.2 billion a year. $1.2 trillion a year. but only two percent of that spending actually takes place in our community. imagine of 1.2 trillion dollars and 98% of it they spent somewhere else. you would know that's going to be a poor country. that's where we are as a community. we are spending a lot of dollars. but not with ourselves. karen: once it arrives in the community through this movement how does that help the community as a whole? guest: one of the things we know

that we are more likely to employ black people. we are more likely to lend to black people. we are more likely to lend in black communities. 70% of our loans are to low to moderate income communities that are largely back -- black. all loans. the idea is that if we spend in our community we also offer services that are more geared to our community. we have something called a second chance checking account. a lot of people can't open a bank account. over one third of our community doesn't have a bank account. we offer something that allows people. karen: that's a way to get away

savings account. you are participating in something called the black economic council which is looking at income inequality in communities of color. how does the bank black movement tied into the work? guest: unfortunately boston is the number one city for income inequality. the assets of 200 56,000 compared to black bostonians with a net worth of 700,000. that's huge. what we are trying to do is tackle that. to say what can we do to have for income equality? a more inclusive economy. the black economic council of

was created to focus on how can we as a community increase the economic well-being of black citizens throughout massachusetts. one of the focus is to buy black. to figure out how we can do business with each other. on our website we are going to have a post of all the black-owned businesses in massachusetts so people can s with. we are also going to advocate policy changes that have a more fair and equitable distribution of government contracts. karen: means having a house, getting a mortgage, having a house with equity in it that you can pull out to send your kids to college.

make some investments. all of that. guest: having money to start a business. having education to figure out how to start a business. financial literacy. it's all of those things. one of the things that we recognize is this is an area that we have to focus on. we have to have a black economic agenda. we have to have a strategy for w we have identified the problem. now we have to focus on fixing this. karen: you can learn more about everything and everyone we featured on today's program by logging onto the cityline page. don't forget to follow up on social media. thanks for watching.

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? >> you're watching "teen kids news." i'm livia. here's this week's top story. nobel peace prize winner nelson mandela famously said, "education is the most powerful tool you can use to change the world." and while there are many ways and places to get an education, many of us are setting our sights on college. and it's no secret that getting into a good college is no walk in the park. but as alexandra reports, there are things you can do to increase your chances. >> while there are thousands of