Juliet E. K. Walker is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is also the founding director of the Center of Black Business History, Entrepreneurship, and Technology. Her scholarship has provided the foundation for recognizing Black business history as a subfield in African American history. In this talk, she covered Black business, entrepreneurship, and their relationship to capitalism from the period of 1619 to the present day. She also discussed what the lessons of history mean for Black businesses in today's world.