Happy New Years World. Introducing 2016

   I just like that ring — brining in 2016. The clock has not yet formally turned past midnight here on the east coast, but to all of our west coast friends, and those friends and colleagues around the world, where the clock has already turned past...

Top 50 Books on Amazon: How The Poor Can Save Capitalism

I just wanted to thank everyone over these holidays, for choosing my most recent bestselling book, “How The Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class,” as a gift to yourself, a loved one, or a business associate.  The result of...

The Coca-Cola Company Commits $1 Million to Operation HOPE to empower Women & Girls.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Lisa M. Borders, Chair of The Coca-Cola Foundation, recently announced a $1 million contribution to Operation HOPE to provide financial education to women and girls primarily living in the southeastern United...

Just in from the Coca-Cola Company: A New Passion for Empowerment

View Caption Immediately after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, plans for an interracial celebratory dinner in still-segregated Atlanta were not initially supported by the city’s business elite. It was the CEO of The Coca-Cola Company...

Secretary Lew,

100 Black Men of America, Inc. supports and commends you and the U.S. Department of Treasury for recognizing how important the Freedman’s Bank was to our nation’s history. The Freedman’s Bank was a symbol of hope to newly freed slaves and renaming the Treasury Annex to the Freedman’s Bank Building can once again serve as a symbol of hope for Americans in underserved communities across the country. Your actions are consistent with The 100’s commitment to its Mentoring, Education and Economic Empowerment pillars and is a reminder to all that we must continue our efforts to attain greater financial inclusion for all Americans. 

 

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Operation HOPE brings its ‘silver rights movement’ back home to Atlanta. Partnering with City of Atlanta

  Every since the day we opened HOPE Inside @Ebenezer in Atlanta, across from the King Center, Operation HOPE has been busy expanding the delivery platform of our empowerment work in underserved communities throughout the nation.  The downside of our robust and...