Innovation For All

Innovation for All explores how diversity and inclusion are impacted by innovation and technology. Long form interviews with experts in tech, design, AI, and business. Is Facebook really a monopoly? How can remote work get more diversity in tech? What’s in the terms of service we usually ignore? How can we build inclusive, human-centered AI? Host Sheana Ahlqvist created Innovation For All to help technologists and entrepreneurs make more inclusive products and businesses and think more critically about the societal impact of their work. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/innovation-for-all/support

Season 3 premiere! Dr. Marcia Chatelain, author of Franchise: The Golden Arches In Black America discusses the complex history of McDonald’s in black America with Sheana. She explains how the civil rights movement impacted black business ownership and how franchises, like McDonald’s, can be both an economic win and financially limiting for low-income communities.

In this episode you will learn:

– How the civil rights movement impacted the growth of McDonald’s in black America
– How McDonald’s utilized black-centered marketing strategies to fuel advertisements
– The pros and cons to working in a franchise
– How the fast food industry was seen as a win for low-income communities initially
– How black-run McDonald’s franchises pooled resources to benefit the community
– The differences of how white and black America viewed McDonald’s and its impact on advertising
– How racist systems use black entrepreneurship as a way to avoid addressing racism
– COVID-19: Challenges to the food justice movement and what environmental racism is
– Corona virus: What are the limits of the private sector?
– Experience and complexities of black franchise owners
– How to reframe historical storytelling to highlight the community rather than the business

Franchise is available now wherever books are sold.

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