{"id":2197,"date":"2018-07-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/uncategorized\/wayne-bradshaw-wolmers-la-times-2018\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:58:13","slug":"wayne-bradshaw-wolmers-la-times-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-profiles\/wayne-bradshaw-wolmers-la-times-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne-Kent Bradshaw, Wolmer\u2019s then Broadway Federal \u2014 Los Angeles Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by James Rufus Koren, Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Wayne-Kent
Wayne-Kent Bradshaw, chief executive of Broadway Federal Bank, photographed in a bank branch on Wilshire Boulevard, 2015. Photo: Katie Falkenberg \/ Los Angeles Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

July 27, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LOS ANGELES \u2014 The Los Angeles Times<\/em> \u201cHow I Made It\u201d profile of Wayne-Kent Bradshaw, then 71 and chief executive of Broadway Federal Bank, recorded that he was born and raised in Kingston by a single mother and \u201ctook and passed a national exam that got him admitted to Wolmer\u2019s, an august prep school that once was reserved only for the children of wealthy families.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 14 his mother, Gloria, left for work in Los Angeles. He later joined her, attended L.A. City College, ran the 400 metres on an athletic scholarship at the University of Arizona, and took an MBA at USC. In 2018 Broadway was, the paper wrote, \u201cthe last African American bank headquartered in the Western United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: Los Angeles Times<\/a>, July 27, 2018. Republished for the Wolmer\u2019s Trust community with attribution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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