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Maurice BP-Weeks

Host of Indebted 10 podcasts

Maurice is a corporate campaigner, organizer and economic and racial justice leader. Maurice is the co-founder and former Co-Executive Director of The Action Center on Race and the Economy. Throughout his career, Maurice has worked with community organizations, labor unions and racial justice activists on a variety of social justice issues. Maurice has a keen interest in economic extraction from communities of color and the abolition of the carceral state.

Contributions from Maurice BP-Weeks

Hope, Solutions, and Forgiveness with Senator Elizabeth Warren

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Welcome to the Season One finale of Indebted! Our episodes have focused on exposing how debt harms Black people and the entire economy—but people are fighting back. There are reasons to hope for a better, debt-free future. In this episode Maurice is joined by four heavy hitters in the fight against debt and its roots in systemic racism. They discuss the many approaches to tackling these problems, from education and legislation to policy advocacy and direct action.

The Debt We Share

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In this episode, Maurice explains what Puerto Rico, Chicago, and Detroit have in common when it comes to municipal bonds and urban racial inequity. Joining him to further elaborate and help the average listener understand a purposefully complicated system is Saqib Bhatti. Along with Maurice, Saqib co-founded the Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE) and currently acts as co-executive director.

Why Elon Musk Gets to Waste $13 Billion in Loans and You Don’t, with Charles Khan

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The "world's richest man," Elon Musk, purchased Twitter (since renamed X) for $44 billion in 2022. It's estimated he holds $13 billion of that amount as debt from bank and other loans. The site's always been a long way from seeing a profit, and is in a worse position since Musk's takeover. So what's the deal? And how can we change the separate set of rules for wealthy debtors?

The Corporations Grading Your Every Financial Move with Tamara K. Nopper

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In this episode Maurice lays out the history of credit surveillance, from individual banks handing out loans based on "vibes" more than anything, to trusting the insecure data systems that led to the 2017 Equifax breach. And all along the way, it's America's Black population that disproportionately suffers the consequences of these experimental models in credit surveillance and lending.

Forgive Us Our Debts

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A most unexpected first piece of mail addressed to his newborn son is the catalyst that sets host Maurice BP-Weeks off into exploring the world of debt and how it's leveraged against Black Americans.