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WayMaker Journal · New issue
The Money Issue
As Love & Hip Hop enters its final chapter, Mona Scott-Young reflects on money, ownership, opportunity and the platform economy she created for a generation of entrepreneurs. Inside: courageous risk-takers, new asset classes and the road to financial freedom.
- The House That Mona BuiltCover story · Mona Scott-Young
- Women As Pro Athletes — The WNFCOdessa Jenkins
- Gas, Tariffs, and the Emerging Black Cost-of-Living CrisisDedrick Asante-Muhammad
- The Billion Dollar Bet on Sports FansJosiah Bates
- The Price of CulturePorsalin Israel
- The Economics of Black SoundChidinma Iwu
- Black Fine Art Is the Asset We Can't Afford Not to Invest InTaryn Finley
- Worth Its Weight — MIRACO & the Value of GoldSamira Baraki
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Cover storyThe House That Mona Built
Mona Scott-Young on money, ownership and the platform economy she created. By Christina Santi; photos by Danny Wonders.
Publisher's noteA tale of two cities
Record markets, record prices — and a generation starving for financial knowledge. Louis Carr on why this issue is a guide, not a read.
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UIC Forum, Chicago, March 12–13, 2027. Speakers, activations and sponsorship lanes announced.
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