Before Black Wall Street… there was Maggie Lena Walker.Born in 1864 to formerly enslaved parents in Richmond, Virginia, Maggie Walker didn’t wait for opportunity—she created it.She became the first Black woman in the United States to own and operate a bank, offering savings and loans to Black families when no one else would. She believed in ownership, in dignity, and in economic freedom for our people.But sis didn’t stop there…She opened a Black-owned department store where every employee was Bl