ThePromisedLand

The premise of artificial intelligence, that everything can be predicted and scripted, is the antithesis of the field independent nature of the cultures of the people of Africa (and most of the rest of the world). The November Journal of Black Innovation discusses the profound risk of giving up our competitive advantage for the latest fad in technology as publisher John William Templeton explains...

With other nations competing to do business with Africa, the United States is scrambling to undo the damage to relations created during the Trump administration and create more opportunities for small businesses and workers. We asked Deputy Secretary Don Graves about those plans during a press briefing on the second day of the African Growth and Opportunity Act Forum in South Africa.

The new middle passage, as Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley described it, must involve a new relationship between oil producing and oil importing nations, based on equality of value chains and respect for the earning power of those who toil in the industry. We connect ACTIF2023 with Justice Week

First, we have to discern how the largest mass casualty event in American history to that point impacted our sense of progress. Guyana is now reaching out to invite the world.

The renewal of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act is a reason to be engaged in the political process of shaping mutually beneficial trade with the fastest growing trade bloc in the world to the progress of the African-American economy.

As Halloween approaches, Chicago announced the opening of the first African-American owned chocolate factory, something which offers new options for African producers to achieve fairness in marketing their products as we approach the AfriCaribbean Trade Forum on Halloween Eve and Halloween where the African Export Import Bank is giving out real economic treats

The elevation of a radical book banner and opponent of civil rights is the latest consequence of the Louisiana election, but other news shows why Black voters have to be engaged in Mississippi and Virginia next week and nationwide in 2024.

As we've pointed out in the annual State of Black Business reports, the Biden-Harris administration is the first to actually commit dollars and administrative policy towards capitalizing Black communities. I address the cynicism being fueled when we should be as aggressive as the Black voters in the 1860s who achieved three Constitutional amendments

Many of my earliest friends when I arrived in San Jose as editor of the San Jose Business Journal turned out in person and online for Reaching the Tech Promised Land at the College of Engineering, San Jose State University on Tuesday, Oct. 17

On the anniversary of the courageous stand of John Carlos and Tommie Smith in honor of Dr. King's prophecy for the Promised Land, we gave a presentation at San Jose State University for the Silicon Valley Black Chamber that called for the creation of ten billion-dollar Black enterprises to make the infrastructure of the 21st century referencing the seminal role of African-American innovators i...

When 700,000 Black voters sat out the Saturday, Oct. 14 Louisiana election, it sent a message that anti-woke partisans were looking for. We had actually gone to sleep in the face of the most serious threat to democracy in 50 years.

I wrote a book called Jazz Management: the art of planned improvisation based on the management lessons of jazz musicians who can come into a completely unexpected situation with unfamiliar musicians and rise to stardom. It doesn't happen by accident. Sen. Laphonza Butler had no idea she would become a U.S. senator, but her life and schooling at Jackson State prepared her to achieve something...

The U.S. government did not shut down, averting an attempt to shanghai civil rights and investment in our communities through the skill and fortitude of House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Further reason to celebrate is Nigerian Independence Day, but the party started much earlier in the year.

Neither group should see themselves as minorities or powerless, notes John William Templeton, author of Capitalizing Our Heritage: State of Black Business, 20th edition, in this episode of The Promised Land. It does represent what can be achieved in relatively short periods with proper policies and civic strategies. There is also a comparison with the approach taken by First Nations, to leverage t...

Most media missed a truly significant event -- the first African-American Defense Secretary completing a three nation trip through Africa in the nation which sent many of its residents into bondage in the United States. But it shows how The Promised Land can occur, with faith and persistence. The trip impacted such cities as Port au Prince, Nairobi and Luanda as we'll discuss in this episode.

African-American car buyers have new options to spend their $190 billion in auto purchases as automobile manufacturing matures across the African continent. Jamaica has announced plans to acquire vehicles from Nigeria's 25 year old Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing and Uganda's Kiira Motors is making solar buses, keeping the minerals for renewable manufacturing in a value chain on the continen...

Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp. Executive Director LaShawn Allen Muhammad joined Secretary General Wamkele Mene of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement and Deodat Maharaj, Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency to explore how communities like Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood capture the energy of the West Indian American Day Parade, America's largest liv...

The Promised Land looks like the Caribbean Investment Forum and AfriCaribbean Trade Forum, both happening in October, in Georgetown, Guyana and Nassau, Bahamas. Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp. Executive Director LaShawn Allen Muhammad joined Secretary-General Wamkele Mene and Caribbean Export Development Agency Director Deodat Maharaj in a UN General Assembly forum on how Black communi...

Gambia, which hasn't been much in the spotlight since Kunta Kinte, was the unexpected winner of the continental competition over who makes the best jollof rice, which gives a shining example of election transparency and international cooperation in a time of chaos. And we preview the Mapping Maya tour spotlighting a noted chef of Pan African cuisine in her own right.

The fall equinox is also the Manifestation Day for St. John Coltrane, who was beatified by the African Orthodox Church. Archbishop Franzo W. King explained why in today's sermon at the St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church. Meanwhile, Deputy Treasury Secretary Adewale Adeyemo was making a name for himself in his homeland of Nigeria on the first day of his trip and a Civil War soldier got f...

Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo returns to his homeland on Sept. 18 for a major economic speech at Lagos Business School, so how does one find a cheeseburger to mark National Cheeseburger Day. No worries, Black Money Worldwide and BlackRestaurant. NET have 100 options to get a Black-owned restaurant to meet your taste needs.

Before the earthquake brought unprecedented devastation to Morocco and even before Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca is an important city on the Mediterranean Sea and the capital of Morocco, just as Washington, D.C. is the nation's capital. But the 712,000 District residents are waiting for an electoral earthquake that would make it a state, something that is important to every African-American.

Today's episode of the Promised Land visits Oakland to discuss the 14th Amendment, and poses the question of how Capetown, South Africa and Jackson, MS can be so close to water, but not actually have the drinking water their residents need. John William Templeton is author of Citizenship for All: 150th anniversary of the 14th Amendment.

Govs. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State in Nigeria and Wes Moore in Maryland, USA have both created excitement for bringing a new goal oriented focus to public leadership from their time in private industry. Speaking of private industry, Lamar Jackson became a one man conglomerate by negotiating his own $250 million contract, celebrated by the entire quarterback room. Baltimore and Ibadan also share a dee...

Like Maya Angelou, Jeannette Fisher-Koaudio, Esq. was curious about Africa although she grew up in San Francisco. But as soon as the opportunity presented itself, she opened up a whole continent of adventure and learned who she really is. She's chair of the San Francisco-Abidjan Sister Cities Committee and gives some of the mechanics of connecting across the oceans.