Reflecting on Black American Business History
National Visionaries and Texas Pioneers Who Built Economic Power Introduction Black American business history is often framed narrowly—either as isolated
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Frisco Tragedy and Division: The Story of Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf
Some “race soldiers” from the other side have been, and are still, threatening Karmelo Anthony’s family by escalating this into a national race issue. And we know the history of this country when it comes to snatching brothas up in trees.
Estimating the True Cost of the 1919 Elaine AR Massacre
The 1919 Elaine Arkansas massacre was a tragic event that resulted in significant loss of life and property. While the
Why Reparations is More Than Just Slavery: Making the case for November 2024
Analyzing the Jim Crow Financial Weapon of Mass Destruction that the elite used to engineer race riots as a cover
SMH Did Racism Shut Down a Major NBA All Star Event in Indianapolis?
The Indianapolis Super Bowl Event Scandal – What Other Cities like Dallas can Learn A peculiar business discrepancy occurred during
Why America Really Hates the Black National Anthem, Pt 2
The original poem over 120 years ago that would later be adopted as the Black National Anthem was really a
So You Really Think Black Americans Got Reparations?
Brothas and sistas, it is quite baffling that there are a lot of people who still believe we got reparations
Do We Know Our Real Identity?
This Fall, a series of videos will explore who we really are. Not from a spiritual standpoint, but from an
Could Madame CJ Walker Have Become a Billionaire?
After becoming successful, she adopted social activism into her business model. That’s fine, but I think she should have sold her supply chain operation as a service so that she could then sell her hair and beauty business to someone else. She could then charge them for supply chain management. Next, she could’ve serviced black clothing manufacturers, food companies/farmers, oil companies, insurance products, funeral home supplies, and other types of black owned businesses.
Shouldn’t Juneteenth Be About More Than Slavery?
The most damaging outcome of the segregation laws was that the fake good cops in government started pushing for desegregation laws. Some of our ancestors knew this was a trap so they resisted desegregation as we were doing fine as a nation state within a racist nation. Why get too close to the enemy? But the naïve ones among our people gave in to the socialist strategy and fought for desegregation.
The result? Instead of being an independent thinking state within a state, forging our own political and economic destiny, we all loaded up the moving truck and went from the Republican party to the Democratic party. How has that turned out? We don’t even keep score. Our median incomes and net worth, which was already struggling in the 1930s through 1960s, stayed flat, not far from zero, till this day. That’s a dam shame.
Affluent Blacks of Dallas 