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The delegates came to the Anacostia Economic Summit saying “(that during the Civil Rights Movement) we were on the left with radical methods of social change, Marion (Barry), and he is on the right also with radical methods of social change. And so we come together at...

A Historic Moment in Anacostia

Federal Reserve Chairman and I during his insightful and forward looking keynote remarks at the Anacostia Economic Summit. Photo is compliments of David Scull of Bloomberg News, as published in the Washington Post today in a lead business section story again on the...

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"…higher wages, which by the way I am all for, are not the only way to help poor people. You make more money one of two ways, “making more, or spending less.” Wal-Mart may not be willing in the short term to pay their workers more, but there sure can be a...

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"It must be empowering to hear your name (called) repeatedly, …but it seems to have no effect on you. Show me your way."  Sharon Wise, an Operation HOPE success story, in a noted passed to John Hope Bryant during the Anacostia Economic Summit, May...

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"In the last 40 years we (the African-American community) have become experts in what we are against. In the next 40 years we must become experrs at what we are for…" John Hope Bryant at the Anacostia Economic Summit, May 3rd, 2006