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Former Ghanaian presidential contender aims to rebuild Chicago's last black bank

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2017-02-24 00:00:00

Still, he showed a politician's savvy this week when he hosted a group of prominent pastors at a Black History Month lunch Thursday, casting the future of his bank as a spiritual battle for the economic health of Chicago's African-American community. Nduom alluded to the history of redlining and other discriminatory lending practices by white-owned downtown banks but also had the group howling at his reminiscences of the hold on his imagination that Chicago had when he was a young man as the home of Jet magazine and its glamorous centerfolds.
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