This week, the Obama Presidential Center will celebrate its long-awaited grand opening in Chicago. There will be speeches, celebrity appearances, glowing media coverage, and carefully choreographed tributes to “hope” and “change.” The official dedication is scheduled for June 18, with public access beginning on Juneteenth. But behind the polished granite, soaring architecture, and endless self-congratulation […] The post Obama Center’s Unpaid Black Contractors: A Monument to Progressive Failure appeared first on StoneZone .
This week, the Obama Presidential Center will celebrate its long-awaited grand opening in Chicago. There will be speeches, celebrity appearances, glowing media coverage, and carefully choreographed tributes to “hope” and “change.” The official dedication is scheduled for June 18, with public access beginning on Juneteenth. But behind the polished granite, soaring architecture, and endless self-congratulation lies a much uglier story. Multiple Black-owned subcontractors that helped build the Obama Center are reportedly owed millions of dollars and are now fighting to keep their businesses alive. The very entrepreneurs the project promised to uplift through its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives have instead become…Open
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