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ThePromisedLand
by BLKBIZMONTH
John William Templeton, the Black Encyclopedia, describes the action steps to reach Our10Plan: the African-American economic strategy by 2026, America's 250th anniversary from the news pages of Black Money Worldwide, the economic newspaper of record for the Diaspora since 1995. (blackmoney.com) He practices what he preaches as chair of the Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp. and lead developer of the Sargent Johnson National Museum of African-American Art. He's founder of the 21st annual Journal of Black Innovation National Black Business Month at blackbusinessmonth.com
Episodes
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Baltimore harbor was our path to freedom
Frederick Douglass and Isaac Myers rival Frances Scott Key in their importance to American history. I describe Black organized labor during my April 6 tour with SEIU 1021
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Dr. Harry Edwards from the John Carlos/Tommie Smith statue at San Jose State University
Brandishing his University of Florida championship ring from the men's basketball team, Dr. Harry Edwards presents the moral and intellectual case against the New Black Codes in this special episode of The Promised Land
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Dr. Harry Edwards: Black athletes defending Black Studies
Dr. Harry Edwards joins The Promised Land at the statue of John Carlos and Tommie Smith to respond to attacks on the victories he has won for Black Studies and academic excellence as we opened the 48th annual National Council for Black Studies. He describes anxious parents contacting him on where...
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Let's practice civil obedience on Black American Day March 5
March to vote in 15 states -- Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia -- in honor of those who marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma and Crispus Attucks, the first to die for…
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The Most Important Speech in African-American history
My re-enactment of Rev. Henry Highland Garnet's greatest speeches at 15th Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. including Let The Monster Perish (first speech by an African-American in U.S. Capitol); and Let Your Motto Be Resistance, Resistance, Resistance
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The voice of 209,145 must be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court
We must lift up the voices of the 200 heroes who died during the New Orleans massacre to the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears the case from the Colorado Supreme Court invoking Section Three of the 14th Amendment. Our lack of knowledge of the most important provision of the Constitution is giving an...
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Tracing the Queen of Pan Africanism
Sometimes the most prominent people can be invisible to the communities that spawned them. Amazingly, the superbly documented saga of Marguerite Annie Johnson has been obscured in a community which gave us Black Studies. But she left us a rich pathway to follow as we are Mapping Maya.
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Birthday or Black History Month? Heck, Let's Celebrate Both Together
Sometimes I forget that February is a big month personally while implementing my career as a Black historian, but I don't have many birthdays left so it's double duty in 2024 and you get to join the joint celebration with the publisher's birthday discount on all our products.
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In order to get down with Black history, you have to get in deep
Beginning Come to the Water, a seven week session on teaching California Black history with a specific focus on African-Americans and the arts with a Black history sea cruise from Pier 43 1/2 and continuing to explore the world of Sargent Johnson
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Defending a country that does not defend us
The January Journal of Black Innovation features the 48 Air Force civil engineering battalions; Army regiments and Naval construction battalions which built 1,000 airfields, the Alaska Highway and seaports, a demonstration of how 5 million Black veterans have stepped up since 1770 for a country...
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A Jan. 6 lesson on the 14th Amendment from the author of Citizenship for All
The most important book on the 14th Amendment is Citizenship for All: 150th anniversary of the 14th Amendment which presents the pivotal clause of the U.S. Constitution through the lens of the African-Americans whose civic participation inserted it into the nation's charter. The 14th Amendment…
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46 million Dr. Claudine Gay's facing the same old story
The capitulation of American higher education to donors and right wing wackos will spread across many arenas.
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We have good reason for Imani
African-Americans know why they have the faith which is the seventh principle of Kwanzaa because Emancipation Day is a witness
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Sargent Johnson's Kuumba soared over racism
His art solved the double consciousness dilemma by leaping over the barriers--a lesson we can all take to heed.
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Nia preserves the vibrancy which has overcome adversity
Roy L. Clay Sr. named his autobiography Unstoppable, as the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame member tells his life story. It is the spirit behind NIA, a determination to rebuild Black communities globally.
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Ujamma Jimmy Castor style
Cooperative economics is my lane to drive the goals of the 20th annual Journal of Black Innovation National Black Business Month by going way back
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Ujima is our advantage against danger
Without fangs, shells, venom or great speed, we humans have to work together, particularly when we African-Americans face the pressures of a society dedicated to our destruction. Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp. is an example of Ujima, or collective work and responsibility, overcoming...
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Kujichagulia with our health care
Self-determination starts with our health care. The African Burial Ground National Memorial shows that the secret burial societies were the first organizations among Africans in America so health care has always been our first concern, but until the last decade, we had little input in it.…
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2023 is the most important Kwanzaa ever
We must heed and learn the seven virtues before 2024, which will be for all the marbles
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Accomplishment of the great work
Dec. 6 is the most important date in African-American history. Learn why as historian John William Templeton explains why he sought out the resolutions of ratification for each state that approved the 13th Amendment in just nine months.
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Queen Calafia sets the stage for emancipation
John William Templeton gives the context of the abolitionists who are behind the murals of the Room of the Dons in the Mark Hopkins Intercontinental Hotel as he marks the anniversary of the dedication of what was called the greatest work of public art since Michaelangelo
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Secrets of the Nov. 18 Massacre
The deadliest mass casualty event of the 20th century has continuing implications for today as historian John William Templeton and political scientist Dr. James Lance Taylor previewed their discussion with participants Capt. Yulanda Williams and Dr. Amos C. Brown as they recalled the tragedy of...
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A 73 percent reduction in shootings in Brownsville
New York City Mayor Eric Adams returned to his home neighborhood to applaud Brownsville for a 73 percent reduction in shootings and 17 percent reduction in crime and a multi-agency effort will work with Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp. and our partners in the Brownsville Hub…
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Queen Calafia Day Dec. 4
Get your exclusive signed copy of Our Roots Run Deep: the Black Experience in California, Vols. 1-4 in time for the anniversary of the unveiling of the Room of the Dons murals in the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill in San Francisco. The larger moral is that our value is often hidden right in front...
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Could John Lynch have foreseen six African-American state house speakers
From 1872 to 1876, Mississippi and South Carolina had African-American speakers of the state legislature, but never again since. Tuesday's elections meant Virginia's House of Delegates will have a Black speaker in the oldest legislature in the country, along with five other states. Additionally,...
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Can a machine be Black?
The premise of artificial intelligence, that everything can be predicted and scripted, is the antithesis of the field independent nature of the cultures of the people of Africa (and most of the rest of the world). The November Journal of Black Innovation discusses the profound risk of giving up…
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Graves says Diaspora businesses a competitive advantage
With other nations competing to do business with Africa, the United States is scrambling to undo the damage to relations created during the Trump administration and create more opportunities for small businesses and workers. We asked Deputy Secretary Don Graves about those plans during a press...
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Energy justice needed across the Diaspora
The new middle passage, as Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley described it, must involve a new relationship between oil producing and oil importing nations, based on equality of value chains and respect for the earning power of those who toil in the industry. We connect ACTIF2023 with Justice Week
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Can we escape the impact of Guyana
First, we have to discern how the largest mass casualty event in American history to that point impacted our sense of progress. Guyana is now reaching out to invite the world.
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25th anniversary of Africa Growth and Opportunity Act
The renewal of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act is a reason to be engaged in the political process of shaping mutually beneficial trade with the fastest growing trade bloc in the world to the progress of the African-American economy.
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Ask who makes your treats and who makes the $$
As Halloween approaches, Chicago announced the opening of the first African-American owned chocolate factory, something which offers new options for African producers to achieve fairness in marketing their products as we approach the AfriCaribbean Trade Forum on Halloween Eve and Halloween where...
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Speak now or forever be silenced
The elevation of a radical book banner and opponent of civil rights is the latest consequence of the Louisiana election, but other news shows why Black voters have to be engaged in Mississippi and Virginia next week and nationwide in 2024.
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Don't judge the book by the unspectacular appearance
As we've pointed out in the annual State of Black Business reports, the Biden-Harris administration is the first to actually commit dollars and administrative policy towards capitalizing Black communities. I address the cynicism being fueled when we should be as aggressive as the Black voters in...
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Silicon Valley Black Chamber hosts civil rights pioneer John William Templeton
Many of my earliest friends when I arrived in San Jose as editor of the San Jose Business Journal turned out in person and online for Reaching the Tech Promised Land at the College of Engineering, San Jose State University on Tuesday, Oct. 17
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Reaching the Tech Promised Land
On the anniversary of the courageous stand of John Carlos and Tommie Smith in honor of Dr. King's prophecy for the Promised Land, we gave a presentation at San Jose State University for the Silicon Valley Black Chamber that called for the creation of ten billion-dollar Black enterprises to make…
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Louisiana elections may have opened door for insurrectionist Speaker
When 700,000 Black voters sat out the Saturday, Oct. 14 Louisiana election, it sent a message that anti-woke partisans were looking for. We had actually gone to sleep in the face of the most serious threat to democracy in 50 years.
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Wake up one weekend and become a U.S. senator by the end of the day
I wrote a book called Jazz Management: the art of planned improvisation based on the management lessons of jazz musicians who can come into a completely unexpected situation with unfamiliar musicians and rise to stardom. It doesn't happen by accident. Sen. Laphonza Butler had no idea she would...
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Does the world's largest Black country feel independent on its independence day?
The U.S. government did not shut down, averting an attempt to shanghai civil rights and investment in our communities through the skill and fortitude of House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Further reason to celebrate is Nigerian Independence Day, but the party started much earlier in the year.
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What does it mean that Latinx aggregate income is twice African-American aggregate income?
Neither group should see themselves as minorities or powerless, notes John William Templeton, author of Capitalizing Our Heritage: State of Black Business, 20th edition, in this episode of The Promised Land. It does represent what can be achieved in relatively short periods with proper policies…
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When I questioned Kissinger in 1976, I could not have foreseen this day in Luanda
Most media missed a truly significant event -- the first African-American Defense Secretary completing a three nation trip through Africa in the nation which sent many of its residents into bondage in the United States. But it shows how The Promised Land can occur, with faith and persistence. The...
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Buy your luxury import from Nigeria or Uganda: How $190 billion goes much further
African-American car buyers have new options to spend their $190 billion in auto purchases as automobile manufacturing matures across the African continent. Jamaica has announced plans to acquire vehicles from Nigeria's 25 year old Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing and Uganda's Kiira Motors is making...
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How U.S. communities can trade directly with Africa and the Caribbean
Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp. Executive Director LaShawn Allen Muhammad joined Secretary General Wamkele Mene of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement and Deodat Maharaj, Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency to explore how communities like Brooklyn's…
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Diaspora doing business across all boundaries
The Promised Land looks like the Caribbean Investment Forum and AfriCaribbean Trade Forum, both happening in October, in Georgetown, Guyana and Nassau, Bahamas. Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp. Executive Director LaShawn Allen Muhammad joined Secretary-General Wamkele Mene and…
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Africa can have fair and free elections -- just look at jollof rice
Gambia, which hasn't been much in the spotlight since Kunta Kinte, was the unexpected winner of the continental competition over who makes the best jollof rice, which gives a shining example of election transparency and international cooperation in a time of chaos. And we preview the Mapping Maya...
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Thank God Almighty for Saint John Will-I-Am Coltrane
The fall equinox is also the Manifestation Day for St. John Coltrane, who was beatified by the African Orthodox Church. Archbishop Franzo W. King explained why in today's sermon at the St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church. Meanwhile, Deputy Treasury Secretary Adewale Adeyemo was making a…
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How do you find a cheeseburger in Lagos or Kingston
Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo returns to his homeland on Sept. 18 for a major economic speech at Lagos Business School, so how does one find a cheeseburger to mark National Cheeseburger Day. No worries, Black Money Worldwide and BlackRestaurant.NET have 100 options to get a Black-owned...
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You must remember this--Casablanca is more than just a movie
Before the earthquake brought unprecedented devastation to Morocco and even before Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca is an important city on the Mediterranean Sea and the capital of Morocco, just as Washington, D.C. is the nation's capital. But the 712,000 District residents are waiting for an…
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Water, water everywhere, but not through the faucet
Today's episode of the Promised Land visits Oakland to discuss the 14th Amendment, and poses the question of how Capetown, South Africa and Jackson, MS can be so close to water, but not actually have the drinking water their residents need. John William Templeton is author of Citizenship for All:...
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Where is the governor, the mayor and all the NFL quarterbacks Black men?
Govs. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State in Nigeria and Wes Moore in Maryland, USA have both created excitement for bringing a new goal oriented focus to public leadership from their time in private industry. Speaking of private industry, Lamar Jackson became a one man conglomerate by negotiating his own...
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Gaining a name and royal lineage by searching one's roots
Like Maya Angelou, Jeannette Fisher-Koaudio, Esq. was curious about Africa although she grew up in San Francisco. But as soon as the opportunity presented itself, she opened up a whole continent of adventure and learned who she really is. She's chair of the San Francisco-Abidjan Sister Cities...
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John William Templeton, the Black Encyclopedia, describes the action steps to reach Our10Plan: the African-American economic strategy by 2026, America's 250th anniversary from the news pages of Black Money Worldwide, the economic newspaper of record for the Diaspora since 1995. (blackmoney.com) He practices what he preaches as chair of the Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp. and lead developer of the Sargent Johnson National Museum of African-American Art. He's founder of the 21st annual Journal of Black Innovation National Black Business Month at blackbusinessmonth.com
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