Podcasts about black opportunity

What do Black and Latino entrepreneurs look like, uninterrupted? That's the question, Felecia Hatcher, CEO of Pharrell William's Black Ambition Opportunity Fund, has for the entrepreneurship ecosystem. Hatcher is a White House Award-Winning Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker and Author. The Fund, which she leads, invests in diverse entrepreneurs with capital, mentorship and uninterrupted access to resources and opportunities. There is nothing she can't do. In the last three years, the Fund has invested in more than 100 Black and Latino-led companies, all which have gone to raise more than $95 million. Today we are speaking with Felecia about the capital gaps for Black and Latino entrepreneurs, the big opportunity that comes with investing in POC communities and her own journey as business owners from owning a gourmet popsicle company with her partner to becoming CEO of Black Ambition. No te lo quires perder.

8.30.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Bayou redistricting battle; GOP attacks Fani Willis; Fox News boasts Trump's popularity with Blacks  Legal battle in the Bayou.  A Louisiana federal court rejects the state's motion to cancel a hearing in the congressional redistricting case to create a second Black Opportunity district.  A Louisiana representative will join us to explain what this means and what's happening with redrawing the maps.  An all-out GOP attack is underway in Georgia against District Attorney Fani Willis.  State and federal lawmakers are actively pursuing new efforts to reprimand Willis for bringing charges against former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants.  We will explain the details of this growing controversy and explore the accusations claiming that Willis is abusing her power. Fox News is at it again.  This time, they are using stereotypes to explain why former President Donald Trump's recent arrests are boosting his popularity among Black Americans.  Wait until I show you the videos. Artificial intelligence is becoming more prevalent, and concerns about its potential dangers and impact on our identities are arising.  We sit down with an intellectual property attorney, who will explain potential risks we may face and how our identities might be compromised in this AI-powered era. Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, XBox and SamsungTV. The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As Black Philanthropy Month begins, Year Up's Black Opportunity Alliance is proud to recognize the contributions of giving in all its forms, as we educate ourselves and spread awareness about the deep legacy and wide impact of Black philanthropy across the United States.  To start things off, we sat down with Greg Walton Year Up Board Vice Chair and Black Opportunity Alliance Ambassador, to discuss the work of the Alliance. Greg, a Boston native and IT Support Engineer at MIT, is committed to closing the Opportunity Divide through his active involvement in Year Up, a non-profit for which he became the first alumnus to join the National Board. He co-founded the Year Up National Alumni Summit, mentors numerous alumni, and holds the unique honor of being the first inductee into both the Year Up and Year Up Alumni Hall of Fame. An MIT Excellence Award recipient and a motivational speaker, Greg is unwaveringly passionate about empowering youth and advocating for community service. Learn more about the Black Philanthropy Alliance: https://www.yearup.org/blackopportunityalliance Follow us on social media:  Linkedin:  David: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidfred/ Greg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gwalton/ Francky: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francky-jean-7172a618b/ Twitter: David: @David_lakay Repiblik: @Repiblik1804   Wanna give us a feedback or say hello?? Repiblik1804@gmail.com

October happens to be #BlackHistoryMonth in the UK so the timing couldn't be better for this first episode of season 3. Today on the podcast I am talking to Tino Chibebe, a young Zimbabwean man who now lives in Belgium. He shares how and why your looks could be a key determinant of how you are treated in the venture capital space in Belgium. His book - The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. We dive into his experience writing his first book, how he almost gave up writing it and why he kept going. Tino also shares his experience of racism in Belgium and how he deals with it. We wrap up the conversation discussing his ties to Zimbabwe and how his work is connected to the African continent. Tino is the first Zimbabwean we have had on the Podcast so I am pretty excited about that! Get his book here Follow Tino on LinkedIn Social Media Instagram: Dear Young Afrikan Facebook: Dear Young Afrikan

CSE's Barrington Miller is joined by Colin Lynch, Managing Director at TD Asset Management, to discuss the Black Opportunity Fund (BOF), a registered charity that provides access to capital and capacity to Black entrepreneurs. The conversation addresses barriers to accessing capital in Canada, COVID-19's impact, and steps to obtaining a grant or loan through BOF.Here's an overview of what Barrington and Colin discuss in this edition of the "Exchange for Entrepreneurs" podcast:00:00 - Introduction and background02:05 - What is the Black Opportunity Fund?05:10 - How to apply for funding09:00 - Requirements and repayment process 13:16 - Social media links and website information

Brian Crombie talks to Dennis Mitchell and discusses his new initiative to combat systemic racism. The Starlight Capital CEO is part of a coalition that has launched the Black Opportunity Fund.Dennis grew up in the west Toronto neighbourhood of High Park “before it was cool.” His mother was a nurse, his father a truck driver and Dennis had ambitions to play professional football until several knee surgeries killed that dream. A long-time admirer of Warren Buffett, he decided to set his sights on a new goal: a career in asset management. “Many people are unaware of what they are capable of accomplishing, until they see someone who looks like them doing it,” he says.

Brian interviews Colin Lynch, Head of Global Real Estate Investments, TD Asset Management. We talk about real estate and his dedication to the Black Opportunity Fund and how he thinks we can fight discrimination, racism and poorer opportunities for African Canadians.Colin KR Lynch joined TDAM in 2015 and co-founded the Global Real Estate Strategy. Today, he oversees investments in over 650 properties across 120 cities worldwide. Colin holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Arts from Queen's University. All were received with distinction. He also holds an ARCT (honours) from the Royal Conservatory of Music. Colin is a member of the Board of Directors of the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Investment Board and the Queen's University's Investment Committee. He is also a co-founder of the Black Opportunity Fund.

In this episode, Tinotenda Chibebe the author of “The Black opportunity” talks to us about how the rise of social media has played a large part in breaking down the social stigma around the African continent. He also talks to us about his book which explores how the inclusion of black voices in the Belgium & Europe venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Finally, he reflects on how the free trade agreement will expand the market size for African start-ups/founders.

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complexs Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital. Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large. Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities. The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders. The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal. The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place. Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network. The Black Opportunity is out now! Buy it on Amazon! Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream, or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow Tino on LinkedIn Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complexs Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital. Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large. Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities. The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders. The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal. The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place. Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network. The Black Opportunity is out now! Buy it on Amazon! Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream, or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow Tino on LinkedIn Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complexs Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital. Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large. Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities. The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders. The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal. The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place. Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network. The Black Opportunity is out now! Buy it on Amazon! Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream, or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow Tino on LinkedIn Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complexs Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital. Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large. Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities. The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders. The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal. The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place. Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network. The Black Opportunity is out now! Buy it on Amazon! Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream, or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow Tino on LinkedIn Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complexs Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital. Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large. Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities. The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders. The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal. The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place. Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network. The Black Opportunity is out now! Buy it on Amazon! Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream, or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow Tino on LinkedIn Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complexs Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital. Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large. Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities. The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders. The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal. The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place. Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network. The Black Opportunity is out now! Buy it on Amazon! Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream, or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow Tino on LinkedIn Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complexs Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital. Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large. Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities. The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders. The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal. The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place. Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network. The Black Opportunity is out now! Buy it on Amazon! Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream, or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow Tino on LinkedIn Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complex's Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa.  Key interview highlights:   The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital.  Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large.  Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities.   The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders.   The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal.  The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place.  Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network.   The Black Opportunity is out now!  Buy it on Amazon!   Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast.   If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com.  Where to find us:  Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.  Help us grow:  Please subscribe, stream, or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues.  Follow Tino on LinkedIn   Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram.  Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complexs Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital. Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large. Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities. The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders. The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal. The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place. Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network. The Black Opportunity is out now! Buy it on Amazon! Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream, or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow Tino on LinkedIn Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complex's Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa.  Key interview highlights:   The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital.  Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large.  Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities.   The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders.   The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal.  The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place.  Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network.   The Black Opportunity is out now!  Buy it on Amazon!   Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast.   If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com.  Where to find us:  Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.  Help us grow:  Please subscribe, stream, or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues.  Follow Tino on LinkedIn   Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram.  Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complexs Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital. Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large. Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities. The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders. The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal. The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place. Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network. The Black Opportunity is out now! Buy it on Amazon! Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream, or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow Tino on LinkedIn Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complexs Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital. Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large. Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities. The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders. The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal. The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place. Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network. The Black Opportunity is out now! Buy it on Amazon! Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream, or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow Tino on LinkedIn Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complexs Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital. Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large. Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities. The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders. The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal. The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place. Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network. The Black Opportunity is out now! Buy it on Amazon! Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream, or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow Tino on LinkedIn Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complexs Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital. Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large. Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities. The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders. The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal. The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place. Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network. The Black Opportunity is out now! Buy it on Amazon! Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream, or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow Tino on LinkedIn Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complexs Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital. Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large. Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities. The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders. The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal. The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place. Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network. The Black Opportunity is out now! Buy it on Amazon! Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream, or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow Tino on LinkedIn Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complexs Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital. Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large. Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities. The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders. The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal. The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place. Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network. The Black Opportunity is out now! Buy it on Amazon! Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream, or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow Tino on LinkedIn Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complex's Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa.  Key interview highlights:   The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital.  Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large.  Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities.   The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders.   The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal.  The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place.  Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network.   The Black Opportunity is out now!  Buy it on Amazon!  Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast.   If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com.  Where to find us:  Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.  Help us grow:  Please subscribe, stream, or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues.  Follow Tino on LinkedIn   Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram.  Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complex's Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital. Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large. Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities. The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders. The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal. The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place. Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network. The Black Opportunity is out now! Buy it on Amazon! Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF (Africa Edition) podcast. We would love to hear your feedback on the show and how we could improve so please complete this short survey. If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow Tino on LinkedIn Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram and Facebook. Join us for the next episode! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Tinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complexs Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is about creating access to opportunities and mass of wealth to black entrepreneurs all over the world and pulling a global conversation around venture capital. Europe operates within an ecosystem where a lot of things about race are less specific, unlike the US, with specific valid data that inform policies to track activities within VC and companies at large. Therefore, Venture capital is largely about the network ( who you know, how you know them, and your similarities). Best businesses are those who have access to such opportunities. The level of inclusion and equity in the VC ecosystem in Africa is low, black founders in Africa face biases, just as it is in the UK and US. Only 6% of African startups seeking funding receive $1M or more, the rest goes to non-black founders. The pattern matching practice among Venture Capital financiers creates a blueprint of what a successful founder should be, based on what has worked in the past. Black founders get left behind because they don't fit into the key signal. The global opportunity cost of pattern matching among others is the inability to maximize the societies' potentials to bring better solutions and better products that make the world a better place. Diversification of VCs is a big step to attracting a different set of founders and diversifying the venture capitalist network. The Black Opportunity is out now! Buy it on Amazon! Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream, or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow Tino on LinkedIn Follow me on LinkedIn Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app

Power & Politics for Friday, April 16th with Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown, Dr. Chris Mackie, Medical Officer of Health at the Middlesex-London Health Unit, Colin Lynch, co-founder of Black Opportunity fund, former RCMP Deputy Commissioner PY Bourduas, and the Power Panel.

An interview with Ray Williams, the co-founder and Chair of the Board of the Black Opportunity Fund (BOF). Williams also serves as Managing Director and Vice-Chair with National Bank Financial. Spearheaded by a coalition of black Canadian executives and established in 2020, the Black Opportunity Fund is Canada's most ambitious investor fund dedicated to ​supporting black community organizations, businesses ​and entrepreneurs. The fund's primary aim is to enable the black community to access a pool of long-term funds to help combat the impact of systemic anti-black racism and promote social and economic empowerment across Canada.

The Quadcast crew begins by giving an update on the alternative chat apps, the latest information on the Indian farmer protests including how FB and the protests are intertwined. Then they discuss Wall Street vs Reddit and the impact of technology on the stock market. Lastly they’re joined by Starlight Capital CEO, Dennis Mitchell who gives a riveting interview about the Black Opportunity Fund, diversity in the financial sector, and advice for building a sound financial future. The views and opinions expressed On Technically Diverse are those of the Podcasters and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any of their respective employers. Any content provided by our Podcasters are of their opinion

Ray Williams VP of National Bank joins Karlene Nation on Media Nation to discuss the Black Opportunity Fund and getting more Black youth involved in finance and later on the show Rosemary Sadlier discusses her book about prominent Black Canadians.

100 days to look at the challenges for Black Communities across the country... It's part of an idea for finding out what those communities and the people in them need to overcome historic hurdles. Mercer Canada CEO Jaqui Parchment tells us about the Black Opportunity Fund and what it could do here in Nova Scotia and across the country.

Just when you think the duplicity can't get any more diabolical, the Dems have enlisted strippers in pole dancing, thong videos to seduce voters. I wish I was kidding. Obama admin no longer in shadows regarding the treasonous activity and dossier. POTUS arrived in ATL today to address black business enterprise and the prosperity measures his admin has offered to the black business owners.

Last month marked the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment which granted women the right to vote. This week on Dialogue Minnesota, Augsburg University Professor of History William Green joins us to discuss the complexities of the women's suffrage movement. He is the author of a book out on the University of Minnesota Press titled “The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota.”

In this episode, Lissa speaks with historian Dr. William D. Green, whose works focus on the history of Black people in Minnesota, and specifically the ongoing struggle for civil rights. Dr. Green is a professor of history at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, and serves as Vice President of the Minnesota Historical Society. He has previously served as Superintendent for the Minneapolis Public Schools. His works on race and civil rights in Minnesota include A Peculiar Imbalance in Early Minnesota: 1837-1869, Degrees of Freedom: The Origin of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865-1914, which won the 2015 Minnesota Book Award-Hognander Prize, and The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876. 

At a speech before the unveiling of the Freedman’s Monument in 1876, Fredrick Douglass stated, “You are the children of Abraham Lincoln. We are only at best his step-children; children by adoption, children of circumstances and necessity.” But who was Douglass referring to when he said "You are the children of Abraham Lincoln" and what did he mean? Dr. William Green investigates this statement in a case-study of four whites from Minnesota who fought hard and won rights for black Americans during and after the Civil War. By evaluating the actions of Morton Wilkinson, Thomas Montgomery, Daniel D. Merrill, and Sarah Burger Stearns, Dr. Green shows how black suffrage was earned in Minnesota, leading the so-called children of Lincoln to say, “We have done our part.” The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876(University of Minnesota Press, 2018) is a fascinating, well-researched book about the limits of black opportunity in Minnesota with remarkable parallels to today’s social and political climate. Dr. William Green is professor of history at Augsburg University and vice president of the Minnesota Historical Society. Dr. Green received his B.A. in History from Gustavus Adolphus College, and his M.A., Ph.D., and J.D. from the University of Minnesota. Colin Mustful has a M.A. in history from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and is currently a candidate for a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Augsburg University. You can learn more about his work at his website: www.colinmustful.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At a speech before the unveiling of the Freedman’s Monument in 1876, Fredrick Douglass stated, “You are the children of Abraham Lincoln. We are only at best his step-children; children by adoption, children of circumstances and necessity.” But who was Douglass referring to when he said "You are the children of Abraham Lincoln" and what did he mean? Dr. William Green investigates this statement in a case-study of four whites from Minnesota who fought hard and won rights for black Americans during and after the Civil War. By evaluating the actions of Morton Wilkinson, Thomas Montgomery, Daniel D. Merrill, and Sarah Burger Stearns, Dr. Green shows how black suffrage was earned in Minnesota, leading the so-called children of Lincoln to say, “We have done our part.” The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876(University of Minnesota Press, 2018) is a fascinating, well-researched book about the limits of black opportunity in Minnesota with remarkable parallels to today’s social and political climate. Dr. William Green is professor of history at Augsburg University and vice president of the Minnesota Historical Society. Dr. Green received his B.A. in History from Gustavus Adolphus College, and his M.A., Ph.D., and J.D. from the University of Minnesota. Colin Mustful has a M.A. in history from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and is currently a candidate for a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Augsburg University. You can learn more about his work at his website: www.colinmustful.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At a speech before the unveiling of the Freedman's Monument in 1876, Fredrick Douglass stated, “You are the children of Abraham Lincoln. We are only at best his step-children; children by adoption, children of circumstances and necessity.” But who was Douglass referring to when he said "You are the children of Abraham Lincoln" and what did he mean? Dr. William Green investigates this statement in a case-study of four whites from Minnesota who fought hard and won rights for black Americans during and after the Civil War. By evaluating the actions of Morton Wilkinson, Thomas Montgomery, Daniel D. Merrill, and Sarah Burger Stearns, Dr. Green shows how black suffrage was earned in Minnesota, leading the so-called children of Lincoln to say, “We have done our part.” The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876(University of Minnesota Press, 2018) is a fascinating, well-researched book about the limits of black opportunity in Minnesota with remarkable parallels to today's social and political climate. Dr. William Green is professor of history at Augsburg University and vice president of the Minnesota Historical Society. Dr. Green received his B.A. in History from Gustavus Adolphus College, and his M.A., Ph.D., and J.D. from the University of Minnesota. Colin Mustful has a M.A. in history from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and is currently a candidate for a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Augsburg University. You can learn more about his work at his website: www.colinmustful.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

At a speech before the unveiling of the Freedman’s Monument in 1876, Fredrick Douglass stated, “You are the children of Abraham Lincoln. We are only at best his step-children; children by adoption, children of circumstances and necessity.” But who was Douglass referring to when he said "You are the children of Abraham Lincoln" and what did he mean? Dr. William Green investigates this statement in a case-study of four whites from Minnesota who fought hard and won rights for black Americans during and after the Civil War. By evaluating the actions of Morton Wilkinson, Thomas Montgomery, Daniel D. Merrill, and Sarah Burger Stearns, Dr. Green shows how black suffrage was earned in Minnesota, leading the so-called children of Lincoln to say, “We have done our part.” The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876(University of Minnesota Press, 2018) is a fascinating, well-researched book about the limits of black opportunity in Minnesota with remarkable parallels to today’s social and political climate. Dr. William Green is professor of history at Augsburg University and vice president of the Minnesota Historical Society. Dr. Green received his B.A. in History from Gustavus Adolphus College, and his M.A., Ph.D., and J.D. from the University of Minnesota. Colin Mustful has a M.A. in history from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and is currently a candidate for a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Augsburg University. You can learn more about his work at his website: www.colinmustful.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At a speech before the unveiling of the Freedman’s Monument in 1876, Fredrick Douglass stated, “You are the children of Abraham Lincoln. We are only at best his step-children; children by adoption, children of circumstances and necessity.” But who was Douglass referring to when he said "You are the children of Abraham Lincoln" and what did he mean? Dr. William Green investigates this statement in a case-study of four whites from Minnesota who fought hard and won rights for black Americans during and after the Civil War. By evaluating the actions of Morton Wilkinson, Thomas Montgomery, Daniel D. Merrill, and Sarah Burger Stearns, Dr. Green shows how black suffrage was earned in Minnesota, leading the so-called children of Lincoln to say, “We have done our part.” The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876(University of Minnesota Press, 2018) is a fascinating, well-researched book about the limits of black opportunity in Minnesota with remarkable parallels to today’s social and political climate. Dr. William Green is professor of history at Augsburg University and vice president of the Minnesota Historical Society. Dr. Green received his B.A. in History from Gustavus Adolphus College, and his M.A., Ph.D., and J.D. from the University of Minnesota. Colin Mustful has a M.A. in history from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and is currently a candidate for a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Augsburg University. You can learn more about his work at his website: www.colinmustful.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At a speech before the unveiling of the Freedman’s Monument in 1876, Fredrick Douglass stated, “You are the children of Abraham Lincoln. We are only at best his step-children; children by adoption, children of circumstances and necessity.” But who was Douglass referring to when he said "You are the children of Abraham Lincoln" and what did he mean? Dr. William Green investigates this statement in a case-study of four whites from Minnesota who fought hard and won rights for black Americans during and after the Civil War. By evaluating the actions of Morton Wilkinson, Thomas Montgomery, Daniel D. Merrill, and Sarah Burger Stearns, Dr. Green shows how black suffrage was earned in Minnesota, leading the so-called children of Lincoln to say, “We have done our part.” The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876(University of Minnesota Press, 2018) is a fascinating, well-researched book about the limits of black opportunity in Minnesota with remarkable parallels to today’s social and political climate. Dr. William Green is professor of history at Augsburg University and vice president of the Minnesota Historical Society. Dr. Green received his B.A. in History from Gustavus Adolphus College, and his M.A., Ph.D., and J.D. from the University of Minnesota. Colin Mustful has a M.A. in history from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and is currently a candidate for a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Augsburg University. You can learn more about his work at his website: www.colinmustful.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Theme By DJ SonicFreak #‎Episode‬ #5 White Privilege Vs. Black Opportunity Are we Still oppressed like some feel or is it us overlooking the opportunities we have in front of us? Twitter: @mrtwothousand & @ReesesReyN www.facebook.com/pages/The-Mr-200…/862237453786305 Songs: "SHOESTRINGS" By Ebonee & "Big Beast (Feat. Bun B, T.I., Trouble)" By Killer Mike Help Us out PLEASE!!! Donations http://www.gofundme.com/theMr2000show Recorded at Ruiner Labs Recording Studios https://www.facebook.com/RuinerLabs Follow Ruiner on Twitter @TheDjRuiner