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Gwen Richardson is an entrepreneur and author based in Houston. Her commentaries have appeared in USA Today, Detroit Free Press, Houston Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer and Atlanta Constitution.
She is the co-founder of Cushcity.com, the world's largest African-American Internet retailer, with nearly 20,000 products online. She is the author of Why African Americans Can't Get Ahead: And How We Can Solve It With Group Economics, and is currently writing a book about the 2008 presidential election.