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The casting of a Black actress as Cleopatra caused something of a stir as we examine two important sources of culture, Alexandria, Egypt and Philadelphia, PA, but there is no doubt about the impact of Francis Johnson, known as the father of American music. If you didn't know that, then you should be subscribing to The Promised Land

Four metropoli with a long history, but which one goes back 1,200 years? We discuss how motion pictures shape our concept of place and time in this episode of The Promised Land and the implications of using such streaming services as Kweli.tv or the Africa Channel. Our Roots Run Deep: the Black Experience in California, Vol. 2 has a list of every African-American who appeared in motion pictures pr...

Today's episode of The Promised Land lifts up Debron and Voncher Walker in Warm Springs, GA who have purchased the Eleanor Roosevelt School and gained a $700,000 grant from the National Park Service to begin restoration of the only brick Rosenwald School of the thousands built between 1912 and 1936. President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a personal check to finish the campaign for the school, n...

What do Chicago and Kinshasa have in common? The fate of humanity is tied up in making those cities work. John William Templeton discusses the ways those urban areas contribute to reaching the Promised Land in today's podcast, which also points out the threats to the 14th Amendment, the foundation of global democracy. Subscribe to The PROMISED LAND https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-...

Capitalizing Our Heritage: State of Black Business, 20th edition, unveils the 60 Cities initiative. The Promised Land will describe those cities with more than one million population each day for the next 60 days and also highlight American cities such as New York City where the West Indian American Day Parade was the largest live event in nation this past weekend. We also spotlight the executive...

On Black American Day, John William Templeton describes the significance of the death of Crispus Attucks in 1770 as the first American to die for the country.

John William Templeton, a fourth generation Presbyterian Ruling Elder, reenacts the most important speech in African-American history, Let the Monster Perish by Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, the first African-American to address Congress at 15th Street Presbyterian Church where Garnet pastored during the Civil War.

Jan. 22 sermon at Third Baptist Church about Deliverance Architecture through the three African-American churches started in 1852 as outposts for the Underground Railroad

The Journal of Black Innovation National Black Business Month chooses Marcus Garvey's birthday, Aug. 17, each year to acknowledge the power of Black unity.

We issue the pledge of allegiance to the heroes of July 30 from the African-American Civil War Memorial where the names of 209,145 U.S. Troops of African Descent are an eloquent statement on the centrality of Black veterans to the creation, preservation and future of the United States of America. Five million African-Americans have fought for this nation, which made a covenant in the 13th, 14th an...

How we tackle learned helplessness and arrive at the promised land in three years.

Defending the 14th Amendment from the Heritage Room of the Thurgood Marshall Center where lawyers gathered in a building designed by Tuskegee architect Sidney Pittman to carry out the strategy to win Brown v. Board of Education

Unveiling 60 cities initiative during first day of #BuildingBlack at Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs and introducing developer Ericka Keller who broke ground on Glenmore Manor for Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp. on a lot which had been vacant since 1967

The second day of the #BuildingBlack symposium at Tuskegee University Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science, the first HBCU architecture program, and a tour of the campus built by bricks hand made by students

From Howard University, announce the findings of the 20th annual State of Black Business along with Dr. M'zee Fula Ngenge, chair of the African Diamond Council

The New Orleans massacre of July 30, 1866 is the event which precipitated the 14th Amendment.

With KPOO's Larry Chew on In Real Time explaining the significance of the 14th Amendment

We descibe the threat and the opportunity to reach the promised land by America's 250th anniversary in this interview with Dan Loney of Wharton Business Daily

We tell the link between the Montgomery bus boycott and the labor movement in this extended episode previewing our tour on Labor Day

From the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Waterfall in Yerba Buena Gardens, John William Templeton incorporates little known history from his documentary The King Behind King, Bridges, Chavez and Mandela and his book Citizenship for All: 150th anniversary of the 14th Amendment as well as the California African-American Freedom Trail He previews the 10 a.m. tour from the waterfall on Labor Day t...