Killer Mike Interview Leads To 8,000 New Accounts at Black Bank

Citizens Trust, a black-owned bank in Atlanta, has seen more than 8,000 people open new accounts over five days after activist and hip-hop star Killer Mike urged black Atlantans to open up accounts at the community lender.

There’s been a “huge influx” of new customers since the rapper, who previously stumped for Bernie Sanders, name-checked the business on Hot 107.9, an Atlanta radio station, Diedra St. Julien, Citizens Trust’s marketing director, told The Post. “This movement brought awareness to the importance of community banks, and the strength of community banks, inside the communities they support,” she said. Killer Mike, who’s one half of the rap duo Run the Jewels, urged black Atlantans to open accounts just one day after the killing of five police officers in Dallas, and after videos surfaced of two black men killed by police in Louisiana and Minnesota.

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