At the State of the Black Community forum Saturday, much of the opening talk focused on a need to bring economic empowerment to a community where so few businesses are black-owned that they don't even show up as a percentage in census reports, in a town where more than half of residents have household incomes below the poverty level. Poverty, and education as a pathway out, served as the ground for discussion of other concerns, from a desire for more black teachers and professors to the "school to prison pipeline." At peak attendance, about 110 people, most African-Americans, but including about 20 whites, were in the pews at the Agape Worship Center on West Grady Street.