by John Bryant | Feb 5, 2023 | Bryant Traveling Man, HOPE Office of Government Relations and Public Policy, John Hope Bryant Authored, Operation HOPE
I was honored to join my friend and MSNBC 11th Hour Anchor Stephanie Ruhle for a special Friday night segment on the State of our America. We dived into a lot of important topics, and were focused on solutions, and resolving our conflicts, and not complaining and...
by John Bryant | Feb 5, 2023 | Bryant Traveling Man, HOPE Office of Government Relations and Public Policy, John Hope Bryant Authored, Operation HOPE
Sometimes seemingly simple discussions, mean much more. This session with MSNBC Anchor Stephanie Ruhle last Friday on ‘Netflix passwords’ was one of those times, and discussions. This was about our values, actually, and ‘what we value.’ This conversation got real...
by John Bryant | Nov 3, 2022 | 1MBB, Events & Appearances, Financial Literacy, HOPE Office of Government Relations and Public Policy
Recently, I visited Memphis to be with my good friends Mayor Jim Strickland and head of the Small Business Administration (SBA), Administrator Isabella Guzman. This was the latest stop on the SBA’s nation-wide tour promoting the Strategic Alliance Memorandum...
by Louis Deas | Jun 10, 2020 | HOPE Office of Government Relations and Public Policy, John Hope Bryant Authored, Silver Rights
Black Americans were dying from COVID-19 at higher rates and receiving relief money at lower rates. Congress had a narrow window to change that, and I used my column in American Banker to show lawmakers how. The New Marshall Plan gives them a blueprint: free education...
by Louis Deas | Jun 9, 2020 | HOPE Office of Government Relations and Public Policy, Operation HOPE, Silver Rights
Rainbows only follow storms. In June 2020 America was living through two at once, a pandemic and a reckoning over race. Operation HOPE answered with a New Marshall Plan for national economic recovery. The plan rests on four pillars: education for all, financial...
by Louis Deas | May 18, 2020 | Financial Literacy, HOPE Office of Government Relations and Public Policy, John Hope Bryant Authored
In 1977, a Bank of America banker walked into my classroom in Compton and taught us about money. He was there because of the Community Reinvestment Act. That one visit set me on the path to everything I have built since. In this op-ed for American Banker, I explain...
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