Podcast appearances and mentions of Maggie L Walker

Ethan Bullard tells the story of Maggie L. Walker, focusing on her legacy as a bank executive, entrepreneur and activist who fought systemic discrimination against women and blacks. Bullard is curator at the Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site in Richmond, Va. Full transcript and related links: https://www.richmondfed.org/podcasts/speaking_of_the_economy/speaking_2023_02_22_maggie_walker

In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker became the first Black woman to charter a U.S. bank when she opened the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia, as the bank's first president. In a classic replay episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast — sponsored by xChange — historian Shennette Garrett-Scott tells the story of Walker and her mission to help Black women find financial empowerment and professional career opportunities. Garrett-Scott, the author of Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, discusses: How Walker countered impressions that Black women were uniquely risky bank clients. The broader context of African-American banks and what set Walker's St. Luke Bank apart. The relationships between Black banks and mutual aid societies and fraternal organizations like the Independent Order of St. Luke. How newly professionalized Progressive Era financial regulators threw up hurdles to Black-owned banks and insurers. The St. Luke Bank's relationships with white-owned banks in Richmond and elsewhere.

#OTD Maggie L. Walker established the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, VA making her the first female bank president in the nation.

The St. Luke Legacy Center was opened in July 2020 with the mission of providing families with wraparound services that would cater to their needs from birth until death.  The Legacy Center is all about seeing and meeting the needs we of our community.  The Legacy Center is dedicated to creating legacy as those who came before us. Located in the historic St. Luke Building in the Jackson Ward community of Richmond, Va, the building once housed the great Maggie L. Walker. Maggie Walker's impact touched the world as the first African American woman to found a bank.

Good morning, RVA! It's 77 °F, and you should expect more of this week's hot weather until this evening—and then you should expect some rain to roll through. Highs tomorrow, though, look like they'll stay below 80 °F!Water coolerAs of this morning, the Virginia Department of Health reports the seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths as: 172, 16, and 6.7, respectively. VDH reports a seven-day average of 17.1 new cases in and around Richmond (Richmond: -2; Henrico: 15, and Chesterfield: 4.1). Since this pandemic began, 1,359 people have died in the Richmond region. 46.7%, 58.4%, and 55.0% of the population in Richmond, Henrico, and Chesterfield have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Yep, Richmond is once again reporting a negative 7-day average of new cases. VDH reports that the city now has had 17,139 total cases of COVID-19—the exact same number they reported back on June 10th (and again on June 14th and June 17th). Perhaps if you're trying to get a feel for the amount of community spread of the disease (something Emily Oster recommends as a starting point to assess the risks of various coronadecisions) you're better off using the regional case count.As of today, adult use of marijuana is now legal in Virginia. Things you can now do: have up to an ounce of marijuana; use marijuana in your private residence; grow up to four plants in your private residence; and share marijuana with an adult friend (as long as you're not pulling any ”marijuana is given away contemporaneously with another reciprocal transaction between the same parties” shenanigans). Things you still cannot (or should not) do: sell marijuana, drive while high, have marijuana on school property, or use marijuana in public. The state's new website, cannabis.virginia.gov, has a good FAQ that you should read. I still have a hard time believing that URL and its weed leaf favicon exists. Mel Leonor at the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports on reactions from a bunch of folks hoping to grow—or make money off of folks hoping to grow—and a nice look at what's next for the General Assembly to tackle while we wait the interminable amount of time until legal sales start happening in 2024. I still say something changes to shift that 2024 timeline forward. Spending three years in this weird in-between space just seems untenable! And I'm not the only one, the Virginia Mercury's Ned Oliver reports that Virginia NORML's 2022 legislative priority is “to expedite retail access for adult consumers, both through already operational medical dispensaries and by moving up the date VCCA can begin issuing new licenses.”Also, as of today, you can no longer keep a box turtle as a pet. Rex Springston has the details in the Virginia Mercury.Via /r/rva, a picture of yesterday's train derailment down at Rocketts Landing, news I first heard about from this jarring GRTC tweet: “ATTENTION GRTC PULSE RIDERS, WE CANNOT SERVICE THE ROCKETTS LANDING STATION DUE TO AN TRAIN ACCIDENT.” This is the second derailment in, what, about a month?Today at 3:30 PM, the Library of Virginia will host a panel discussion about Virginia's 1971 Constitution. I mean, sign me up: “Join us for a stimulating conversation about the advances made possible by this constitution and the work that still remains.” I live for stimulating conversations about old documents/PDFs! The event is free, but you'll need to register ahead of time. Also, remember, today is the last day for you to stop by the library to see the original copies of Virginia's Constitutions of 1776, 1869, 1902, and 1971.Tonight at 8:00 PM, VPM will premier How the Monuments Came Down over on their YouTube. This local film “explores Richmond's complex history through the lens of Confederate monuments, supported by an extensive visual record never before presented in a single work.” If you're ready to relieve the events of last summer, check it out. You can learn more about the folks behind the film here.This year, assuming things go as planned heading into the fall, the Richmond Folk Festival returns to the riverfront bringing with it live, loud, and in-person music. Trevor Dickerson at RVAHub has the run down on the first set of announced bands, plus…a scavenger hunt?This morning's longreadEnjoli and Sesha Joi Moon's JXN Project is an effort to tell Black Richmond stories ‘truthfully and completely'I've been writing a lot about Enjoli and Sesha Moon's JXN Project over the last couple of weeks. Here's a nice Q&A with them.Last December the Moon sisters combined their research and storytelling skills and co-founded The JXN Project to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Jackson Ward, the nation's first Black urban neighborhood registered in the National Register of Historic Places. Through the project, they hope to educate people on the overlooked history of Jackson Ward, which dates to April 17, 1871, and had a pivotal role in the Black American experience. The sisters are currently working to rename Jackson Ward's streets to honor some notable Black Richmonders, such as Maggie L. Walker, the first African American woman to charter a bank in the U.S., and John Mitchell Jr., editor of The Richmond Planet, an African American newspaper.If you'd like your longread to show up here, go chip in a couple bucks on the ol' Patreon.Picture of the DayZinnias!

Clara Giorgis, daughter of Daniel and Ryan Giorgis of Glen Allen, recently graduated summa cum laude from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. Giorgis earned a bachelor of arts in Russian and International Studies. Other recognitions include dean's list, Phi Beta Kappa, departmental honors in international studies, the Marianna Bogojavlensky Prize in Russian, and the Ganoe Prize in International Studies. She is a graduate of Maggie L. Walker Governor's School. *** Alexander Edward Tarr of Sandston was named to the spring 2021 dean's list at Iowa State University. To be eligible for the dean's list, students must earn a semester grade...Article LinkSupport the show (http://henricocitizen.com/contribute)

#OTD Maggie L. Walker established the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank making her the first female bank president in the nation.

Good morning, RVA! It’s 45 °F, and, while you can expect highs in the 60s today, you can also expect a whole lot of wind. Later this week we could see lows below freezing, so think hard if you’ve got plans to plant your garden!Water coolerAs of this morning, the Virginia Department of Health reports 1,392 new positive cases of the coronavirus in the Commonwealthand 20 new deaths as a result of the virus. VDH reports 145 new cases in and around Richmond (Chesterfield: 72, Henrico: 31, and Richmond: 42). Since this pandemic began, 1,203 people have died in the Richmond region. While it’s good news on the vaccine side of things, which you’ll see in a moment, the number of new COVID-19 cases in Virginia continues to climb up off of this bumpy plateau. One thing I’m interested in is how having a huge percentage of the state’s seniors vaccinated impacts the number of hospitalizations and deaths. I mean, I’m not interested enough to want case counts to increase, but it looks like that’s happening anyway.As for vaccines, the Richmond region continues to vaccinate more than enough people to meet the governor’s stated goals (which works out to 37,000 vaccines administer per week). For folks still waiting on a vaccination appointment—or waiting to become eligible—“vaccinating more than enough people to meet the goal” does not feel like nearly enough. We’ll get there, though. Here’s this week’s graph of total doses administered locally along with the graph of state allocation of vaccine. And, over the weekend, I put together a new, simple graph of total people in Richmond, Henrico, and Chesterfield with at least one dose. The purple part of this graph represents 75% of the region’s population (679,950) and is what we’re shooting for if we want to reach herd immunity. I don’t really know if you can “reach herd immunity” in a locality or even in a group of localities, but I think it’s something to shoot for (or at least make a graph about).City Council will host its second budget work session today! You can tune in live at 1:00 PM or check out the recording on The Boring Show later this week. The presentation attached to the agenda looks like a general budget overview and has the Mayor and CAO’s names on it, which could be a fun presentation to listen in on. One additional budget update I wanted to mention. Last week I wrote about how the new “Complete Streets” CIP project folded together a bunch of projects from last year’s CIP—including the City’s project for paving. For FY22, all of those projects combined totaled $23,900,000 while the new Complete Streets project only had $8,150,000 budgeted towards it in FY22. The budget for paving in last year’s CIP alone was $20 million, so I was concerned about the missing $15 million and nervous that money previously allocated to sidewalks and bike lanes and traffic calming would get spent on paving. I’ve since learned some things! The key piece of information I lacked was that money from the CVTA (about $17 million) will get moved into a CVTA Special Fund in the City’s operating budget. That solves the mystery of the missing $15 million. I assume (always stupid) that most of this will be spent on road (and sidewalk!) maintenance and paving for the foreseeable future due to years of disinvestment, and that the $8 million allocated for Complete Streets will be used for just that. That might be an overly naive take—given that the new Complete Streets money is more discretionary than listing out specific projects for specific needs like, say, setting aside $X million for sidewalks. It’s something to keep an eye on. Also, nothing says that the money coming from the CVTA forever and always must be used on road maintenance. That’s something to keep an eye on, too.Kenya Hunter at the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that “Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School accepted more Black and Latino students for the upcoming 2021–22 school year than it has in five years. This year, around 8% of Black students who applied were accepted; 11.7% of Latino applicants got in. That’s up from 3% for Black students and down from 20% for Latino students, who applied in significantly greater numbers this year.” What changed? Hunter says the school got rid of in-person admission tests. While school administrators aren’t willing to say that’s what increased applications from Black and Latino students, you can easily see how standardized tests are a barrier to some students.The Partnership for Smarter Growth, Virginia Poverty Law Center, and Richmond For All have put together a proposed affordable housing framework for the Richmond Region. There’s a lot in here, and a lot of it is above and beyond my housing chops. While I really don’t know the path forward on public housing—for example, does the federal support exist to commit to “one-for-one brick-and-mortar replacement of like kind of any public housing units lost in the process of redevelopment”—I do appreciate some of the suggested process improvements for RRHA. I’d like to learn more about Local Rent Supplement Programs, too. Anyway, you can learn more today at a virtual presentation at 12:00 PM. It’s free, but you’ll want to register over on the Eventbrite.I think I’ve linked to each previous phase of VDOT’s commuter survey, so now I am honor-bound to link to the Phase 3 Virginia Commuter Survey. If you commute, or if you no longer commute, take a couple minutes and fill this out—especially if you get to and from work in something other than a personal vehicle! These days, I make most of my commutes in my slippers.This morning’s longreadWhy a ship stuck in Egypt threatens the economy in the United StatesLast night they got the boat slightly less stuck in the Suez Canal. Here’s a piece in the WaPo about why having it stuck there in the first place was a big deal.If you’ve been paying attention to the story, you’ve probably heard this aspect mentioned. This ship, this one gigantic, Empire State Building-sized ship, might potentially cause economic damage to the United States. This may seem inscrutable to a layperson. The ship will do this … how, exactly? To answer this question, I contacted several experts on global logistics. The goal wasn’t to understand the intricacies of the international trade system, but simply to answer that direct question. What’s the butterfly-flapping-its-wings process by which that stuck vessel ripples onto our shores? The short and obvious answer is that, unlike that apocryphal butterfly, there’s a direct and obvious connection between that ship and American consumers.If you’d like your longread to show up here, go chip in a couple bucks on the ol’ Patreon.Picture of the DayA flying squirrel.

This week, The Amateur Economists talk about black economic history. They talk about four figures in black economics history. Who are Margaret Simms, Maggie L. Walker, Marcus Alexis, & Darrick Hamilton. Join them this week to find out more. BLACK HISTORY EVERYDAY! #eattherich #hacktheplanet

In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker became the first Black woman to charter a U.S. bank when she opened the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia, as the bank’s first president. On the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast — sponsored by NICE Actimize Xceed — historian Shennette Garrett-Scott tells the story of Walker and her mission to help Black women find financial empowerment and professional career opportunities. Garrett-Scott, the author of Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, discusses: How Walker countered impressions that Black women were uniquely risky bank clients. The broader context of African-American banks and what set Walker’s St. Luke Bank apart. The relationships between Black banks and mutual aid societies and fraternal organizations like the Independent Order of St. Luke. How newly professionalized Progressive Era financial regulators threw up hurdles to Black-owned banks and insurers. The St. Luke Bank’s relationships with white-owned banks in Richmond and elsewhere. This episode is sponsored by NICE Actimize Xceed. Additional resources: Read a past Banking Journal feature on Walker as one of nine young bankers who changed America. Read a Wall Street Journal article on Walker’s legacy. View a virtual tour of Walker’s home in Richmond.

After roughly four centuries, the Spanish Inquisition was disbanded on this day in 1834. / On this day in 1864, Maggie Walker was born. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Maggie L. Walker established the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank becoming the first woman in the United States to hold the title of bank president

Maggie L. Walker established the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank becoming the first woman in the United States to hold the title of bank president

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Maggie L. Walker led by example, While many of the largest black-owned banks went under during the Great Depression, Walker’s bank survived, in part by merging with two smaller, black-owned banks in 1930, when it was renamed Consolidated Bank & Trust. Today, Consolidated has assets of $116 million, and the majority of its shareholders, who include two of Walker’s descendants. Black Americans need to revisit group economics immediately. So what does that mean for us? We need to actively support each other on the journey of achieving financial freedom. We need to teach ourselves and our children about life. Ranging from setting up successful investment portfolios to avoiding unhealthy eating habits. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brittany-bailey9/support

On August 10, 2016, veteran Richmond Times-Dispatch sports columnist Paul Woody, and Hall of Famer Willie Lanier gave a Banner Lecture at the Virginia Historical Society. Virginia native Willie Lanier is known as one of professional football’s greatest defensive players of all time. A 1963 graduate of Maggie L. Walker High School, he was the first African American to play middle linebacker in professional football when he was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in 1967. During his ten season career with the Chiefs, he helped lead the team to victory in Super Bowl IV, won the NFL Man of the Year award in 1972, was a six time Pro Bowler, and was enshrined in the NFL Hall of Fame in 1986. Join us for a casual conversation as veteran Richmond Times-Dispatch sports columnist Paul Woody chats with Willie Lanier at the Virginia Historical Society.

Tonight learn about Maggie L Walker~ the first African-American woman to found a bank and serve as its president. In 1899.Maggie Walker  was the Secretary Treasurer of the Independent Order of St. Luke (IOSL) a self help, benevolent society.   The bank, St. Luke Penny Savings was home to the benevolent society (self-Help org.) under Maggie Walker's leadership. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. Since obtaining this position, Walker focused on using economic empowerment to defy Jim Crow Laws.  She did this by establishing a bank, newspaper, and store.   Walker was the first African-American woman to found a bank and serve as its president.  Maggie Walker's leadership, entrepreneurship, and magnanimous personality significantly helped African-Americans across the country gain equality and empowerment. ------- Tonight Join The Gist of Freedom as learn more about the social activist Maven Maggie L. Walker with Ben Anderson! Mr. Anderson is a tour guide ranger at the National Park Service Maggie L  Walker Historic Site. Walker was the first African-American woman to found a bank and serve as its president.   Watch http://youtu.be/urXaceI0Vj4

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