--- --- # How to Close the Racial Wealth Gap by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 13, 2015 5:10 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 13, 2015 5:10 PM UTC **1\.** [**Want to close the racial wealth gap? Start with business ownership.**](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/about/blog/why-business-ownership-matters-closing-racial-wealth-gap) By Joyce Klein in the Aspen Idea **2\.** [**In America’s rising struggle over race, where has all the power gone?**](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-12/yale-protesters-and-tea-party-have-something-in-common) By Francis Wilkinson in Bloomberg View **3\.** [**Why is Facebook getting so intimate with us?**](https://medium.com/thoughts-on-media/the-new-intimacy-economy-51c87dc4a4d6) By Leigh Alexander in Thoughts on Media, in Medium **4\.** [**DARPA’s latest drone will hunt submarines.**](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/darpa-is-building-an-autonomous-submarine-hunting-drone-boat) By Brian Merchant in Motherboard **5\.** [**This common sunscreen ingredient drastically cuts infections from medical implants.**](http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/23287-sunscreen-ingredient-may-prevent-medical-implant-infections) By Kate McAlpine at the University of Michigan  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ How to Close the Racial Wealth Gap ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4111683/fix-racial-wealth-gap/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4111683/fix-racial-wealth-gap/"},"headline":"How to Close the Racial Wealth Gap","datePublished":"2015-11-13T17:10:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:58.030Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4111683/fix-racial-wealth-gap/","keywords":["Innovation","facebook","Race","Drones","sunscreen"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4111683/fix-racial-wealth-gap/","name":"How to Close the Racial Wealth Gap"}}]}] ```