TO NARROW RACIAL AND ECONOMIC DISPARITIES, ATLANTA FED CHIEF RAPHAEL BOSTIC IS RETHINKING WHAT THE FED’S MANDATE MEANS. When Raphael W. Bostic, the first Black president to lead one of the Federal Reserve’s regional banks, published a searing essay during this summer’s Black Lives Matter protests calling for an end to systemic racism, he spurred an urgent discussion around the century-old institution about how to build an economy that includes all Americans.
