Sylvia Cotton had been part of a book club in Atlanta for 25 years when she and her cohorts read “The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America” and had the author, Shawn Rochester, in for a Zoom chat. Rochester suggested that the women, most of them professionals or entrepreneurs, should form an investment club. That was just over a year ago, and now Reading Our Profits is an LLC with nine members, a partnership agreement, a brokerage account and one tax return filed with the U.S. government.
“I literally googled ‘how…
