America's Most Powerful Black Families

[Cadillac]

if i have time, im gonna spend some time reading thru this. Theres a alot of info in here. just on this page

 

[IllmaticDelta]

...more on the Trotter kin

Trotter came from the Mary Hemings line:







....by way of Peter Hemings came:

Anita Florence Hemmings (June 8, 1872 – 1960)

Spoiler

she got into Vassar by passing as white (she was later fully pass as white and now has a "white" identified branch)

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one of the reasons she was exposed was because her brother came to visit her:

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her brother was also a pioneer

Chemistry Class of 1897, including Frederick J. Hemmings (center, 4th from left), ca. 1897.

Frederick John Hemmings

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In that article I posted above

WHS Lewis (Bessies huband) ran in the same circles as WEB Dubois and Monroe Trotter. He's also the one that got Trotter arrested in that incident with Booker T





William Henry Lewis (November 28, 1868 – January 1, 1949)

.....they also had a sister

Anita married Andrew Love, MD (né Andrew Jackson Love; 1861–1948), on October 20, 1903, in Boston at Trinity Church. Their marriage license indicates their race as African American. About thirteen years earlier, in 1890, Love earned a medical degree from the Meharry Medical Department of Central Tennessee College in Nashville,[2] an institution distinguished for, among other things, having the first medical school in the South for African Americans.[3] Dr. Love did post-graduate studies at Harvard Medical School in the summer of 1905.[4][5]


Siblings[edit]

1. Elizabeth "Libby" N. Hemings (born 1876) married Walter Gilbert Alexander, MD (1880–1953), on May 3, 1904, in Boston. They later divorced.
2. Frederick John Hemmings (né Frederic Henderson Hemmings; 1873–1956), earned a bachelor's degree chemistry from MIT in 1897.[7]
3. Robert Williamson Hemmings, Jr. (born 1882), was an artist who studies in art included winning, in 1903, a bronze medal and scholarship from the Eric Pape School of Art for a sketch in black and white. He graduated June 26, 1899, from the Sherwin School's 26th class, a high school for African Americans in Roxbury.[8]

she was married to another pioneering afram

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Walter Gilbert Alexander (December 3, 1880 – February 5, 1953)

was an American physician and Republican Party politician from New Jersey. He was president of the National Medical Association and the first African American to serve in the New Jersey Legislature.


Early life and career


Alexander was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1880, the son of former slaves. He attended public schools in Lynchburg and entered Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1895 at the age of 14. He graduated in 1899 and then attended the Boston College of Physicians and Surgeons (now Tufts University School of Medicine), receiving his M.D. in 1903. After practicing medicine for one year in Kimball, West Virginia, he opened a practice in Orange, New Jersey, where he resided for the rest of his life.[1][2]

From 1906 to 1912, Alexander served as vice president of the New Jersey National Medical Association, and in 1907 he organized the North Jersey Medical Society. He was an active member of the National Medical Association (NMA), the largest and oldest national organization representing African-American physicians in the United States. He assisted in the founding of the Journal of the National Medical Association in 1908. Dr. Alexander was a founding member of the Oranges and Maplewood Unit of the NAACP. This Unit was the first NAACP established in New Jersey. He served as general secretary of the NMA from 1912 to 1924 (and again from 1928 to 1932), as president from 1925 to 1926, and as chairman of the board of trustees from 1942 to 1944. He received the NMA's distinguished service award in 1944.[1][2]


Political career

Alexander became involved in Essex County politics, serving on the Republican County Committee in 1911. In 1912, he was a candidate for the New Jersey General Assembly on the Progressive Party ticket with Theodore Roosevelt, making him the first African American in the state to have a regular party endorsement for a legislative seat. In 1914, he was a candidate for City Commissioner of Orange, receiving the eleventh highest vote total in a field of 54 candidates. In 1919, Alexander was an unsuccessful candidate for the Assembly on Essex County's Republican League ticket.[1]

In 1920, Alexander won election to the Assembly, on a twelve-person Republican slate in Essex County that also included the first two women elected to the New Jersey Legislature, Margaret B. Laird and Jennie C. Van Ness. In March 1921, Alexander was appointed to serve as acting Speaker of the Assembly while Speaker George S. Hobart was attending a National Guard investigation. It marked the first time that an African American had acted in this capacity, though an African American would not be elected to the speakership until 1974, when S. Howard Woodson was chosen for the position.[3] He won re-election to the Assembly later in 1921.[4]

Alexander was selected as alternate-at-large to the 1924 Republican National Convention. Four years later, the Republican State Committee selected him as one of seven delegates-at-large to the 1928 Republican


Later life

Alexander maintained close ties to his alma mater, Lincoln University, serving as graduate manager of athletics from 1920 to 1926, president of the General Alumni Association from 1931 to 1936, and member of the Board of Trustees in 1936.[1] In 1939 the university awarded him an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.[2]

On October 13, 1926, Alexander along with 12 other individuals co-founded Alpha Alpha Lambda (ΑΑΛ), the first New Jersey chapter of the African-American fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ).[citation needed]

He was appointed the president of the New Jersey Tuberculosis League. He was also a member of the state Public Health Council, the Committee on Health and Welfare under Governor Alfred E. Driscoll, and the medical advisory committee of the National Youth Administration.[2]

Alexander died in 1953 at his home in Orange at the age of 72, survived by his wife Lillian.[2]

In 2007, Governor Jon Corzine signed a bill commemorating the achievements of Alexander, along with Hutchins F. Inge, the first African American to serve in the New Jersey Senate.[6]

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his son also went on to do great things

Walter G. Alexander II

Rutgers honors the six new members of the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni for their exemplary careers, personal achievements, and contributions to society out of these six, TWO are Alums of the School of Engineering, our first awardee is:

Walter G. Alexander II's father practiced dentistry for more than 50 years. His grandfather was a physician. In fact, all the men in his family had been through dental or medical school. So, in 1939, when it was time for Alexander to pursue his own post secondary education, he told the family he'd signed up to study...mechanical engineering. That's Alexander: sufficiently independent to choose his own path but practical enough to make a sensible choice.

Alexander's name has a couple of asterisks after it: first African-American student to graduate from Rutgers' School of Engineering (1943); first African American to serve on the New Jersey State Board of Dentistry (1972-1977) (yes, he did ultimately become a dentist, but more on that in a minute). To Alexander, being the first person of color to accomplish this or that "wasn't any big thing. It was something of note because it hadn't happened but should have. It was a correction of something that was wrong."

Still remarkably fit and trim at age 85, Alexander smiles as he points to himself - all legs and youth - in an old 8" X 10" Rutgers track team photo, where he competed as a miler and hurdler. A skinny kid who hated the cold, Alexander borrowed tights and nug-fitting long-sleeved tops fromt he Rutgers wrestling team to keep warm through outdoor winter practices. He says he was the first to wear the extra layer of "skin" now commonly seen on runners and cyclists.

The fabric of Alexander's life includes his wife, Ann: two daughters; and two college-age grandchildren. He completed training as a military pilot and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Forces in June 1945. But World War II ended before he completed even one mission as a Tuskegee Airman, its conclusion eliminating many jobs for engineers, including the one Alexander had with Douglas Aircraft in Los Angeles before entering the service.

Alexander turned to what he knew. With his family's roots and traditions to fall back on, he entered dental school at Howard University. He graduated in 1952 with a doctorate in dental surgery and went to work alongside his brother, a doctor, who had set aside some space in his Orange office. Alexander kept his practice, which he had long ago relocated to his own home office in South Orange, until 2007.

If the elder Alexander was disappointed with his son's original choice of study, he never said so. Alexander's father was sufficiently determined to guide his son, but wise enough to allow him to make his own way. That must be where Alexander gets his grace.

 

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Chicago's Quintin E. Primo III

Quintin E. Primo III is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capri Investments and one of the wealthiest black men in America. Quintin is a graduate of Indiana University and Harvard Business School.

Capri Investment Group

His company has a strategy that includes making investments in black and brown communities both in the U.S., Africa, India, and Middle East.

From what I hear, he's lowkey a billionaire but the extent of his assets are underreported. His reported net worth is $300 million.

Here is a spotlight that Black Enterprise has done on his work:




Capri is responsible for purchasing and redeveloping Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza.

His wife is Diane Primo, CEO of IntraLink Global, a digital integrated communications company. Diane is a graduate of Smith College and Harvard Business School.

She's also chairman of the Primo Center for Women and Children, a shelter for abused, battered and homeless women and their children in the west side "K" town neighborhood of Chicago.


Quintin's father was Quintin Ebenezer Primor, Jr. - The Suffragan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, for whom the center is named after.

I believe Quintin was the first black bishop of the Episcopal Church in Chicago.


The Primo's are known for an annual Gala - "The Red Hot Gala", that they host at their North Shore mansion in Lake Forest, to benefit their west side Women's Center.

blackgivesback: Chicago's Primo Center for Women and Children Hosts RedHot Diamonds and Denim Gala


The Primos support many causes within the greater black Chicago community.

The Primos were ranked as being one of Chicago's Top 5 Power Couples

Chicago's Top 5 Power Couples

Lake Forest Colonial Sells For $800,000 Below Asking Price

The head of a real estate investment firm sold a multi-million home with a pool and tennis court to the chief of an artificial turf company.

The six-bedroom, 8,400-square-foot home on Laurel Avenue first appeared on the market in May 2018 with a list price of just under $3.5 million.

Located on a 1.6 acre lot west of Green Bay Road and adjacent to a nature preserve, the property includes an in-ground pool and a tennis court.

Its sale was finalized Dec. 2 for $2.6 million, 25 percent below the asking price but still one of Lake Forest's 10 most expensive publicly reported home sales of 2019.

The three-story, 13-room home was renovated in 1930 and has an exterior composed of aluminum and vinyl siding, according to its listing.

There's a heated garage with room for three cars as well as a brick driveway with space for an additional four cars. The home's interior features hardwood flooring, vaulted ceilings and six fireplaces.

According to public records, the sellers were Quintin Primo, CEO of a real estate investment management firm he co-founded, and his wife Diane Primo, founder and chair of a public relations agency. The Harvard business school grads purchased the home more than two decades ago for $1.75 million. Mr. Primo is the son of the late first black Episcopal bishop of Chicago, who founded the Primo Center for Women and Children that he and his wife now co-chair.

Capri Capital Partners, Mr. Primo's firm, has about $4.5 billion in assets, according to an online biography. Before starting his first business, an investment banking firm, in the 1980s, he was a vice president at Citicorp Real Estate. The Chicago Tribune described Capri as the leading black-owned commercial real estate lender in 1999. Forbes estimated his net worth at $300 million and included him on a list of the "wealthiest black Americans" a decade later.

The buyers were identified as Elizabeth and Eric Daliere. Mr. Daliere, a former partner at a private equity firm, is the current president of controversial artificial turf manufacturer FieldTurf and its parent company, Tarkett Sports. The Dalieres are both listed as graduates of Northwestern University's business school.

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Probably had to still remove all of their pictures.

Just goes to show you, you can move to an ultra affluent area and still have your investment low-balled.

 

[get these nets]

@Dorian Gray

Had me worried when I saw that you were quoting your original entry about them. Thought it was going to be a bad update, the worst kind.


Do houses in that price range and area stay on the market that long?It was listed about 18 months before the pandemic hit.


I tell you what, the agent was told that he/she had a choice. Either remove all photos of the couple, or remove all the Harvard crest items from the house. Either or. Nothing would stir more resentment than a visible photo of them at the reunion.

 

[get these nets]

Unlike the Coli, for many, there seems to be no question with respect to Kamala's loyalty to the black community because she has embraced many of the "accoutrements" of "blackness" deemed as "important" among the black establishment.

In addition to choosing to attend Howard University, she chose to pledge Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.

Kamala is in the top row, fourth from left with the shades on.

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Mar 23, 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris Celebrates Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Sisterhood in ‘Twenty Pearls’ Documentary (EXCLUSIVE)

Vice President Kamala Harris is saluting her Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters in a new documentary film titled “Twenty Pearls: The Story of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.”

The documentary — which debuts March 26 on Comcast’s Black Experience on Xfinity channel and will be available nationwide on demand starting March 30 — is narrated by Phylicia Rashād. Both Rashād and Harris pledged the sorority during their time as students at Howard University.

“Twenty Pearls” examines the sorority’s history beginning with its founding by nine Black women enrolled at Howard in 1908 and traces the sorority’s direct influence and involvement in watershed moments throughout history including Civil and Women’s Rights, World War II, NASA, HBCU Endowments and mobilized support for Harris to become America’s first Black and South Asian woman vice president.



As the documentary notes, observers have called the members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority Harris’ “secret weapon.” But Harris’ love for her sisters is not a secret.

“I have traveled our country, and I can’t tell you how, invariably, somebody will be standing outside the room for greeting me in that glorious pink and green,” Harris says in a clip from the doc shared exclusively with Variety.

Harris continues: “It’s such a special experience that I wish for every girl and young woman to know that you are part of a sisterhood and to have that reinforced.”

In addition to Harris’ interview, the film also features interviews with Miss Universe Ireland 2019 Fionnghuala O’Reilly; Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III; Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Fierst, great-granddaughter of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt; and Dr. Glenda Glover, the International President and CEO of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

“Telling our own story is essential to preserving our history and uplifting the culture,” Glover said in a statement about the film.

“Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated’s remarkable 113-year journey which began on the campus of Howard University is punctuated by stories of history makers, ceiling breakers, public servants and ordinary women who have changed the course of American history,” she continued. “Through this beautifully written and narrated odyssey, this film highlights in undeniable ways the vision, courage, tenacity, determination and power of Black women while putting to bed the age-old questions about the relevance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and the Divine Nine historically Black sororities and fraternities.”

Written and directed by Deborah Riley Draper and produced by Coffee Bluff Pictures, the film celebrates the sorority’s 300,000 members and the global impact of the organization.

“This is an extraordinary time to look back at our past to serve our future,” Draper said. “A future where Black women are centered. Helming this documentary love letter to the founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the generations of women that followed in their footsteps and to all Black women everywhere is an honor. This is an important history for all of us to know and understand.”



The film will premiere on Comcast’s newly launched Black Experience on Xfinity channel, which debuted last month.

 

[get these nets]

Official greenlight is on


Mar 29, 2021
Lee Daniels, Karin Gist Drama ‘Our Kind of People’ Given Script-to-Series Order at Fox

The Lee Daniels and Karin Gist project “Our Kind of People” has been given the straight-to-series treatment at Fox Entertainment. The show from the “Star” executive producers is the first new Fox drama series ordered for this season, and the first series to be launched out of the network’s script-to-series model and writers’ room led by Gist.

Inspired by Lawrence Otis Graham’s book “Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class.” Per the logline, the drama takes place in the aspirational world of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, a historical stronghold where the rich and powerful black elite have come to play for over 50 years. The series follows protagonist Angela Vaughn, a strong-willed, single-mom, as she sets out to reclaim her family’s name and change the world with her revolutionary hair-care line that highlights the innate, natural beauty of Black women. Michael Thorn, president of entertainment, for FOX Entertainment, described it as “a soapy, thrilling exploration of race and class in America.”



“Our Kind of People” was first put in development back in 2017, as Variety exclusively reported, and was re-worked as of last year. The writers’ room news came three months after Fox announced the project was still in contention for an off-cycle order to fill the network’s growing scheduling needs due to COVID-19.

Gist is writing and executive producing alongside Claire Brown for her The Gist Of It Productions. Daniels, Marc Velez, and Pam Williams are exec producing via Lee Daniels Entertainment, with Propagate’s Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, and Rodney Ferrell also on board as EPs. Montrel McKay is a non-writing executive producer.

Gist signed a new overall deal with 20th Television earlier this year.

 

[get these nets]

Chicago businessman John W. Rogers

Who is founder and Chairman of Ariel Investments and is one of the richest black men in America.

John Rogers is a descendant of Black Wall Street Millionaires

His great grandfather was JB Stradford

Who owned the Stradford Hotel in Tulsa that was burned down by hating ass cacs.

But this is a story for another time.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

There was no formal buffer class but clearly there’s a buffer class.

It’s rare to have a family of all dark skinned people that enjoy this type of generational wealth in the USA. This is purposefully for a type of light skin person.

The issue isn’t that they’re light skin. It’s just that their light skin betrays the history of their wealth.

It's not because they're dark, alot of these families were pioneered by a successful dark(er) skinned former slave or free people of color.


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Charles Syphax holding his grandson, ca. 1865.

The Syphaxes were one of the most influential enslaved families at Arlington. Charles Syphax oversaw the dining room at Arlington House and was the unofficial leader of the Arlington enslaved community. The son of a free black itinerant Alexandria street preacher and an enslaved woman from Mount Vernon, Syphax was one of the fifty-seven enslaved people who came to Arlington from Mount Vernon with George Washington Parke Custis in 1802.

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The reason these older elite families are NOT all dark is because many of the aframs they came in contact with on their social/economic level had some type of admixture which would obviously reduce the chances of offspring continuing to be dark.

 

[Cadillac]

Lee Danies?

 

[Laidbackman]

Whole lotta light skints . That's American history of course but.......

Most powerful black families where the average complexion is AT LEAST Snickers chocolate?

Biracial would be the appropriate word here.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Biracial would be the appropriate word here.

they aren't biracial though...of course they have biracial ancestors but they, themselves, are monoracial

..other Daniel P Murray branches:


his cousin was the bibliophile William Bolivar of Philly's old black elite. He paved the way for people like Daniel Murray, John Edward Bruce Carter G Woodson and Arturo Schomburg

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the guy sitting next to him was a Dereef

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His mother was from an old black elite family: The LeCounts, whom the most known member to mainstream history was Caroline Lecount






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her husband was Octavius Catto

“Octavius Catto was a true American hero. Like many unheralded black American heroes, he should be revered and recognized. Their lives and accomplishments should be part of the curriculum of our schools, not just during the shortest month of the year,” Mayor Kenney told the crowd gathered for the unveiling. Catto spent a relatively short life fighting for equal rights for African Americans. The Civil War veteran was known for his contributions to education, sports, and civil rights.




Catto was a freeman born in South Carolina, but his family moved to Philadelphia when he was a child. He was the valedictorian at Cheyney University (the nation’s first HBCU that was then called the Institute for Colored Youth) in 1858 and began working there as an English and math teacher. During the Civil War, he served in the Pennsylvania National Guard and recruited more Black soldiers for the Union Army. A talented athlete, he “establish[ed] Philadelphia as a major hub of the Negro Leagues” and fought to integrate the sport in the late nineteenth century. America still hasn’t caught up to Catto’s vision of universal equality, which included voting rights for African Americans. It was the latter vision that cost Catto his life. He was shot dead by “Irish-American ward bosses” on the day he saw the fruits of his activism– the first Election Day after the ratification of the 15th Amendment allowed Black men to vote. He was only 32 years old.

Spoiler

Catto was connected to the Dereef clan, a rich, slave owning family

 

[Laidbackman]

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they aren't biracial though...of course they have biracial ancestors but they, themselves, are monoracial




the guy sitting next to him was a Dereef

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Catto was connected to the Dereef clan, a rich, slave owning family

Some of the photos in this thread obviously are monoracial, but I'm referring to the ones who would be referred to as lightbrite, like Valerie Jarret, etc... They get most of their power from a wealthy White parent, if not a wealthy White grandparent. Tbh, you'd be surprised how many Blacks darker than the average light-skinned person (whatever color that is), have a White parent, including Frederick Douglas.

The reason I made my comment was to stop people from combining average non dark-skinned Black people with lightbrite Black people, whom most have a White parent or grandparent. They don't see things the way most Black people do, especially the biracial ones.

 

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Some of them obviously are monoracial, but I'm referring to the ones who are lightbrite, like Valerie Jarret, etc... They get most of their power from a wealthy White parent, if not a wealthy White grandparent.

VJ's family is literally in the first post of this thread. They are generationally black. This thread is about the black upper crust who are generationally black and not biracials. You are not a black elite if you are biracial. And if you are, you get your black elite status from your black parent who comes from a generationally black high status family.

 

[Laidbackman]

VJ's family is literally in the first post of this thread. They are generationally black. This thread is about the black upper crust who are generationally black and not biracials. You are not a black elite if you are biracial. And if you are, you get your black elite status from your black parent who comes from a generationally black high status family.

She's 49% European, 46% African, and 5% Native American. Just like Obama, she wasn't even born here, and probably neither were you.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

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Some of them obviously are monoracial, but I'm referring to the ones who are lightbrite, like Valerie Jarret, etc... They get most of their power from a wealthy White parent, if not a wealthy White grandparent. Tbh, you'd be surprised at how many Blacks darker than the average light-skinned person (whatever color that is), have a White parent.

Valerie is not biracial...