Presidential Medal of Freedom Awardee Rev. C.T. Vivian: Appreciation to U.S. Treasury for the Renaming of the Freedman’s Bank Building

by | Jan 5, 2016 | Financial Literacy, HOPE Inside, HOPE Project 5117, HOW THE POOR CAN SAVE CAPITALISM Book, John Hope Bryant Authored, Operation HOPE, Silver Rights

“At a meaningful meeting today, we talked about something we have not talked about substantively since Frederick Douglass worked with government to run the Freedman’s Bank in the late 1800’s. Douglass ran the bank, only to find out that those...

The More Radical President Abraham Lincoln, Wanted to Build Black Wealth.

by | Jan 5, 2016 | Financial Literacy, HOPE Inside, HOPE Project 5117, HOW THE POOR CAN SAVE CAPITALISM Book, John Hope Bryant Authored, Love Leadership Book, Operation HOPE, Silver Rights

In a provocative piece wrote and published earlier today at LinkedIn Influencers, I frame out and tell the untold story of not only the Freedman’s Bank, chartered ion 1865 to ‘teach freed slaves about money,’ but also President Lincoln’s...