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...

U.S. SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet to speak at the HOPE Global Forum 2016 Annual Meeting

by | Jan 4, 2016 | Financial Literacy, HOPE Office of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, HOPE Project 5117, HOW THE POOR CAN SAVE CAPITALISM Book, John Hope Bryant Authored, Operation HOPE, Silver Rights

The Operation HOPE family is proud to announce that U.S. Small Business Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet is confirmed to join us on the main stage at the 2016 Annual Meeting for Operation HOPE and our HOPE Global Forum in Atlanta, Jan 13-15th, 2016. Administrator...

Secretary of Housing & Urban Development Julian Castro to speak at the 2016 HOPE Global Forum Annual Meeting

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I and we here at Operation HOPE and the HOPE Global Forum are honored to welcome my friend, Secretary Julian Castro of the U.S. Housing & Urban Development (HUD), as a speaker at our January, 2016 HOPE Global Forum Annual Meeting. Secretary Castro is a strong...

Happy New Years World. Introducing 2016

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   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...