America's Most Powerful Black Families

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The conversation begins @4 minute mark

Arthur McFarlane
Colorado B.A. Everest BBA

Dr. Amanda Washington Lockett
Spelman B.A. Columbia M.A. Penn PhD

Cacs

These families will be white in a 100 years

Spoiler: Her Husband

Darryl Lockett

Her mother was like my grandmother. Had a thing for dark skin men.


Actually, most of them do.
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Darryl Lockett, the Executive Director of The Kennedy King Memorial Initiative (KKMI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to build on the historical events of April 4, 1968, to raise awareness, provoke thought and inspire action to eliminate division and injustice.


In previous positions, Lockett has served as a research and policy fellow at the Washington Development Industry Council (WDIC), project coordinator for Greenberg Quinlan Rosner (GQR) Research and Democracy Corps and development director for the National Diversity Council.

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Lockett holds an undergraduate degree from Howard University and has completed graduate studies in an MA/MBA dual degree program at John Hopkins University’s Carey Business School and Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. He and his wife Dr. Amanda Washington Lockett are the proud parents of two amazing children.

 

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Arthur McFarlane
Colorado B.A. Everest BBA

I’m gonna reply to your posts a little bit later but my god, I had no idea that Yolande Dubois had any children after her marriage ended with Countee Cullen. Breh look like a Tariq acolyte and got the Art of Mack on his bookshelf.

 

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I’m gonna reply to your posts a little bit later but my god, I had no idea that Yolande Dubois had any children after her marriage ended with Countee Cullen.

Breh look like a Tariq acolyte and got the Art of Mack on his bookshelf.

Listening to it now, and he sounds like it too.

Sounds like he's from the untalented 90th. Hehehehehe

*just jokes

*just heard him talk about the pressure of being descended from such a distinguished man

Feel halfway bad about the joke, but not enough to take it down. heheheh

 

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Listening to it now, and he sounds like it too.

Sounds like he's from the untalented 90th. Hehehehehe

*just jokes

*just heard him talk about the pressure of being descended from such a distinguished man

Feel halfway bad about the joke, but not enough to take it down. heheheh

From Harvard to Everest, what a major fall, don’t ask me how.

Roasting is a legacy we inherit from black culture. And everybody can get it.

Nah.... I’m sure having the pressure to live up to that sort of legacy is immense.

But I’m glad that he has it, and carrying it, so that he can pass it on to his children.

This is his MySpace profile picture.

He looks like he post on this forum.

 

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Post a family that fits your definition of black. I’m interested.

All black families

 

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She’s a member of the Chicago Northeasterners.

Piqued my interest. Would like to hear the family stories. Positive stories only.

OKOP series debuts in a few days, so it's open season on Boul-ettes on the internet after that.

What is the origin of the group's name? Was it originally a club for transplants from the Northeast Corridor? Or created by Bostonians who had attended Northeastern?

The group was originally called the Gay Northeasterners and their husbands the Gay Lords. Some time around the end of the 1970’s they dropped the ‘Gay’ and just go by the Northeasterners and the Lords.

The group was founded by Agatha Scott Davis the wife of Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, first black man to become a general in the US Air Force.

She created the group after traveling around the Northeast and meeting many black debutantes from different cities. The group was created for them to socialize and keep in touch. Chapters were established around the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Upper Midwest.

Pictures of various Northeasterner Chapters.

(Edith Scott (Sister of Agatha Scott Davis) is on the left with two other members)

In many of the northern cities that have chapters, in terms of pecking order, the Northeasterners are higher on the totem pole than the Links, because membership is extended to women that are both debutantes and legacies and because the organization is not.....

Spoiler

‘polluted’ with southern members

So really hard to get into unless you are a descendant of the various charter members. Although, I’m sure there are a few non-charter member descendants, it’s basically a family organization at this point.

I’ll post some family stories shortly.

 

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The conversation begins @4 minute mark

The conversation was interesting and they touched on a lot of points.

I do feel bad for joking about his education after he revealed that his pastor told him not to tell people he was related to Dubois because his education was perceived to be an embarrassment and that he didn’t have a PHD. His pastor was low key right but that, in the end, should not have been said. I did do an eye roll when McFarlane proclaimed to have ‘supreme intelligence’ compared to most people.

Anywho, some good points were made about the..

-Pitting of Dubois and Washington and how parallels could be made to today with respect to Africans Americans vs. Caribbean/Continentals. McFarlane is definitely a pan-African.

-Washington revealed that she knows A’lelia Bundles and how they discussed the history between Madame CJ Walker and Booker T., and how also they were made to be pitted against one another.

-And that focusing on their supposed feuds takes away from how they collaborated and furthered one another’s initiatives and aims.

Something we can learn from today.

- Washington kept it real stating that even though her ancestor espoused “pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps” rhetoric that we have been prevented from having bootstraps - something that investor Eddie Brown (whose video has been posted before) has echoed, and that their needs to be recompense.

-Both McFarlane and Washington appear to be strong supporters of reparations.

There were some other things but it was a good conversation.

 

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She’s a member of the Chicago Northeasterners.

The lady seated on the right in the purple is Shari Runner.

Shari was the CEO of the Chicago Urban League

Shari Runner is the President and CEO of the Chicago Urban League. A native of Chicago, she has been an active part of the city’s civic and cultural life. She is passionate about the importance of inspiring youth and empowering African American lives.

Established in 1916, the Chicago Urban League works for economic, educational, and social progress for African Americans and promotes strong sustainable communities through advocacy, collaboration, and innovation. Runner leads the strategic planning, development, programming and community outreach for the organization, one of the largest of the 95 affiliates of the National Urban League. Runner began her tenure with the Chicago Urban League in 2010 as Senior Vice President for Strategy and Community Development. In this role she oversaw operations in all programmatic areas, and worked with the president and CEO to increase financial support to the Urban League and to establish short and long term strategic objectives.

Runner began her career in finance and trading with the First National Bank of Chicago. As a Vice President she traded foreign exchange, and traveled nationally and internationally marketing banking services. She later worked for ABN/AMRO bank leading the overnight trading and EMS currency desks. With more than 25 years in operations and financial management she has also worked as an entrepreneur, management consultant, and community advocate. Her civic leadership includes serving on the board of directors of Urban Gateways and as the president of the board of directors of the Bright Promises Foundation. She has been actively involved with the Museum of Science and Industry’s Black Creativity program since 2000. From 2010 through 2012 she served as the program’s executive chair. Runner received her bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and her MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Shari has been a tireless advocate for Chicago’s black community. She’s been known to beef with the former Mayor Rahm Emmanuel. Here is a snippet of one of their exchanges.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel was accused Wednesday of “victim shaming” for citing an absence of “values” and “character” in the African-American community after the weekend bloodbath in which 71 people were shot, 12 of them fatally.

Shari Runner, until recently the president and CEO of the Chicago Urban League, said the mayor’s blame game is offensive and insensitive.

“I cannot see the victims of racist policies and bigoted practices shamed by anyone who says they need to do better or be better in their circumstance. I won’t accept it,” Runner said.

“Scolding the African-American community for the ills of what’s happening in those communities is not only not helpful. It’s not correct. There’s no more religious, conservative, amazing community than the African-American community. The African-American community is resilient. The African-American community survived this strife. … It is not fair to blame the victims of policies that have created their circumstance.”

Apparently referring to the mayor’s emotional response to the weekend violence, Runner said: “The African-American community deserves a lot more than tears and certainly deserves a lot more than victim-shaming. This is the result of racist policy and bigoted practice for decades.”

^^^^ These are the boulettes that people like @The Hon. Stringer Bell claim to be agents of white supremacy.^^^^^

Shari is a member of Delta, The Links, The Northeasterners and attended the Laboratory School of the University of Chicago along with the rest of the children of Chicago’s black elite.

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Shari’s father is Dr. Charles Jefferson Runner.

A South Side pediatrician for more than 50 years, Charles Jefferson Runner cared for multiple generations of the same families.

"He took care of a lot of kids," said his daughter, Shari.

Dr. Runner had a private practice in a handful of locations, primarily in the area around East 63rd Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue in the West Woodlawn neighborhood, his daughter said.

"He was most happy doing his pediatrics ... [but] the practice had changed so much with PPOs and HMOs," Shari Runner said. "The corporate side of the business had gotten to be too much."

Dr. Runner was born in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Howard University with a zoology degree. In 1944, he received a medical degree from Howard.

He came to Chicago's Provident Hospital to complete a residency. It was during his pediatrics rotation at the hospital that he met his wife, Dorothy, who was pursuing a degree in social work at the University of Chicago. The couple were married for 63 years.

During the Korean War, Dr. Runner was stationed in Munich and worked in an Army medical facility. In 1989, he was one of the first recipients of the Martin Luther King Legacy Awards, given by the Boys and Girls Club of Chicago. Dr. Runner was also an avid photographer.

Dr. Charles Runner was a member of Chicago’s Beta Boule


Shari’s mother is Dorothy Walker Runner

Civic volunteer Dorothy Runner was born on May 6, 1920, in Nitro, West Virginia; she attended segregated Dunbar Elementary School in Charleston, West Virginia. Runner was an active member of the B-Squares girls service club in a high school, where a significant number of teachers had graduate degrees from Columbia University. Runner graduated from Henry Highland Garnet High School in 1937; that same year, she entered Howard University. While at Howard, Runner joined Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and was elected Ms. Gridiron. Runner was mentored by Howard's noted theologian, civil rights activist and mystic, the Reverend Howard Thurman. Earning her B.A. degree in social work in 1941, Runner went on to pursue graduate study at the University of Chicago under the guidance of Robert Hess.

While in Chicago, Runner met and married Dr. Charles Runner; she then worked briefly at Provident Hospital before beginning to raise a family. In 1951, Runner moved to Germany where her husband was stationed as an Army physician. While raising her two daughters, Runner's parental activities led her to heightened civic involvement. Active as a member of the AKA's, the Girlfriends, and other women's organizations. Runner developed her friends and associates into a useful network for social change.

Runner served as a board member of the Art Institute of Chicago and Chicago Urban Gateways; through her participation as a member of the New Provident Foundation, she raised $100,000 for Provident Hospital's Building Fund. Runner received the Outstanding Volunteer Award from the National Society of Fundraising Executives in 1985. Runner was a founding member of the South Side Auxiliary of Planned Parenthood and helped establish the 63rd Street Outpatient Clinic; she was also a founding member the Hyde Park\Kenwood Auxiliary of the Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society. As a member of the board of advisers of the Museum of Science and Industry's annual Black Creativity Exhibit, Runner continued to be a valuable contributor to the community.

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Dorothy Walker Runner refused to let the injustice of segregation diminish her goals or weaken her spirit. When West Virginia colleges barred blacks in the 1940s, Mrs. Runner moved to Chicago and earned a master's degree in social work.

Dark memories from her early years fueled Mrs. Runner's activism and guided her life's work in making Chicago's cultural and arts institutions more accessible to disadvantaged youths.

Her most notable accomplishments included helping establish the Urban Gateways arts organization and launching the Museum of Science and Industry's annual Black Creativity gala and exhibit.

"She was a dynamic force in the city of Chicago," said Linda Johnson Rice, a close friend and chairwoman of Johnson Publishing Co. "She believed deeply in community involvement and was a leader by example.

In the 1980s, Mrs. Runner was tapped by the Museum of Science and Industry to raise funds for an annual African-American science exhibit. In that role, she recruited Chicago's most prominent black community leaders and planned the first Black Creativity gala in 1983 for 400 guests.

David Mosena, president and CEO of the Museum of Science and Industry. "Her wisdom and vision shaped the museum's Black Creativity program into a year-round celebration of exhibits and educational programming that touches countless children and adults."

Dorothy Walker Runner refused to let the injustice of segregation diminish her goals or weaken her spirit. When West Virginia colleges barred blacks in the 1940s, Mrs. Runner moved to Chicago and earned a master's degree in social work.

Dark memories from her early years fueled Mrs. Runner's activism and guided her life's work in making Chicago's cultural and arts institutions more accessible to disadvantaged youths.

Her most notable accomplishments included helping establish the Urban Gateways arts organization and launching the Museum of Science and Industry's annual Black Creativity gala and exhibit.

"She was a dynamic force in the city of Chicago," said Linda Johnson Rice, a close friend and chairwoman of Johnson Publishing Co. "She believed deeply in community involvement and was a leader by example.

In the 1980s, Mrs. Runner was tapped by the Museum of Science and Industry to raise funds for an annual African-American science exhibit. In that role, she recruited Chicago's most prominent black community leaders and planned the first Black Creativity gala in 1983 for 400 guests.

David Mosena, president and CEO of the Museum of Science and Industry. "Her wisdom and vision shaped the museum's Black Creativity program into a year-round celebration of exhibits and educational programming that touches countless children and adults."

With a fabulous head of gray hair and a vivacious smile, Mrs. Runner became one of the doyennes of Chicago's black society. But in a December 1986 interview with the Tribune, Mrs. Runner explained why she and other community leaders were sometimes reluctant to embrace the term "society."

"A lot of them are unsung. Like me, they are not anxious to be dubbed (part of society)," she said. "The organizations that I work for like the Art Institute and Urban Gateways are important. The causes are not frivolous and are very serious. We can't afford to forget this."

Dorothy W. Runner was an AKA, Jack and Jiller, and one of the charter members of the Chicago Northeasterners.

There is a video where Dorothy talks about the Northeasterners. I’ll see if I can post it later.

There is a joke about the Walker, Runner, and Steptoe family (whom I’m going to spotlight next) because their names all deal with feet. The Steptoes were very close to the Runners and Walkers. In the Northeasterners photo, Jan Stepto Millet is seated next to Shari Runner in the gray shirt and her cousin Kelly Stepto Royston is standing behind her, sixth from the right.

 

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The lady seated on the right in the purple is Shari Runner.

Shari was the CEO of the Chicago Urban League



Shari has been a tireless advocate for Chicago’s black community. She’s been known to beef with the former Mayor Rahm Emmanuel. Here is a snippet of one of their exchanges.



^^^^ These are the boulettes that people like @The Hon. Stringer Bell claim to be agents of white supremacy.^^^^^

Shari is a member of Delta, The Links, The Northeasterners and attended the Laboratory School of the University of Chicago along with the rest of the children of Chicago’s black elite.

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Shari’s father is Dr. Charles Jefferson Runner.



Dr. Charles Runner was a member of Chicago’s Beta Boule


Shari’s mother is Dorothy Walker Runner

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Dorothy W. Runner was an AKA, Jack and Jiller, and one of the charter members of the Chicago Northeasterners.

There is a video where Dorothy talks about the Northeasterners. I’ll see if I can post it later.

There is a joke about the Walker, Runner, and Steptoe family (whom I’m going to spotlight next) because their names all deal with feet. The Steptoes were very close to the Runners and Walkers. In the Northeasterners photo, Jan Stepto Millet is seated next to Shari Runner in the gray shirt and her cousin Kelly Stepto Royston is standing behind her, sixth from the right.

You found one rider and acting like she is the norm instead of the exception.

 

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You found one rider and acting like she is the norm instead of the exception.

she’s the norm. all of these men and women, if you ask them what’s most important to them, and if you look at their life’s work for evidence, it will be community upliftment. now take a look at nigerian or south african elites and see if the same would be said of them.

with respect to the men, like her father, most of the men in the chicago boule own their own businesses or practices, and operate entirely on the south side. not corporate men or ‘gatekeepers’ to white corporations that you like to assume.

could be you one day, if you decide to open your own law practice on the south side.

 

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she’s the norm. all of these men and women, if you ask them what’s most important to them, and if you look at their life’s work for evidence, it will be community upliftment. now take a look at nigerian or south african elites and see if the same would be said of them.

with respect to the men, like her father, most of the men in the chicago boule own their own businesses or practices, and operate entirely on the south side. not corporate men or ‘gatekeepers’ to white corporations that you like to assume.

could be you one day, if you decide to open your own law practice on the south side.

So all these corporate and political shills aren't boule?

 

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So all these corporate and political shills aren't boule?

the boule has their membership published or exposed as I should say. majority of the men are business owners like john rogers, quentin primo, and jim reynolds. a very small minority are still corporate men. most boule membership is doctors (who have their own practice), lawyers, and business owners.

politics is different. and it may be different in different cities.

in chicago, i don’t know of any men that are in politics at the moment that are boule. jesse jackson was never invited to the boule. neither jessie white or any others.

one who may get invited soon is justin slaughter who I talked about here:

Illinois Becomes 1st State To Eliminate Cash Bail

 

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The conversation was interesting and they touched on a lot of points.

I do feel bad for joking about his education after he revealed that his pastor told him not to tell people he was related to Dubois because his education was perceived to be an embarrassment and that he didn’t have a PHD. His pastor was low key right but that, in the end, should not have been said. I did do an eye roll when McFarlane proclaimed to have ‘supreme intelligence’ compared to most people.

Anywho, some good points were made about the..

-Pitting of Dubois and Washington and how parallels could be made to today with respect to Africans Americans vs. Caribbean/Continentals. McFarlane is definitely a pan-African.

-Washington revealed that she knows A’lelia Bundles and how they discussed the history between Madame CJ Walker and Booker T., and how also they were made to be pitted against one another.

-And that focusing on their supposed feuds takes away from how they collaborated and furthered one another’s initiatives and aims.

Something we can learn from today.

- Washington kept it real stating that even though her ancestor espoused “pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps” rhetoric that we have been prevented from having bootstraps - something that investor Eddie Brown (whose video has been posted before) has echoed, and that their needs to be recompense.

-Both McFarlane and Washington appear to be strong supporters of reparations.

There were some other things but it was a good conversation.

Thought it was interesting pairing. The positive of being linked to giants is the legacy, attention, and networks it gives you access to.
The negative can be the extremely high expectations, and having history dissect,criticize, and call out decisions made by your ancestor.

I got the impression that McFarlane wanted the attention, but didn't want the pressure. They go hand in hand. One of the consistent themes of the stories in this thread are the high standards that the descendants are raised to meet and exceed. Most recently, in the post about the dedication of the Shadd Postal Office, the member of her family said it in his speech.

Washington appears to be comfortable in her skin.
Ms. Bundle's "copping pleas tour" for the Self Made miniseries had to play a concert in Washington's home. hehehe That series heightened/created disagreements between MCJW and others for dramatic tension, and to make her into a female superhero. You predicted the tour, interesting to read about one of the dates.
I enjoyed Washington's comments. It wasn't the right format to bring it up, but I imagine she gets asked the most questions about BTW's Atlanta Compromise speech.

McFarlane said a comment that I will send question about if I ever see an upcoming podcast appearance of his.

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He said that some Africans he knew told him that "George Floyd's muder was their wakeup call about the realities of racial dynamics in America, and that separating themselves from AAs wouldn't protect them.
There have been high profile assaults and murders of Blacks from several foreign backgrounds going back 25 years. Abner Louima/Patrick Dorismond in New York....Amadou Diallo in New York, Somali man in MN a few years back.
There were incidents before and since, but these two were the big ones.
Diallo's murder and Louima's assault were covered extensively internationally. And were the wakeup call heard around the world for Black immigrants. All of whom who have countrymen or relatives in New York.

His overall point wasn't lost on me. Just questioned whether people said that to him . That and the comments made during the "supreme intelligence" line sound like he was delving in hotep-ery.
When he's speaking honestly, from the heart.....it's a good listen.

Eddie Brown, like Du bois in his era, and Mrs Washington-Lockette in this era were/are speaking from a unique vantage point. Their education and experiences gives them an unfiltered view of how society and its systems are constructed, from the top. Everybody feels the effects of racism, but very few see how and where it's embedded into the systems.
Having seen how things truly operate, the reactions are the things you pointed out. And are reflected in multiple stories in the thread. No glass ceiling to hit your head on when you start and grow your own firm or practice. Create and support your own institutions and networks. Advocate for resources for your community from govt. to directly address the inequities that are built into the system.

And, in some cases the reaction is to expatriate, like Dubois did. He lived a full life, adopted different methods to counter and fight the system. Ultimately he arrived to the same conclusion that a segment of AAs did more than a century earlier.

 

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the boule has their membership published or exposed as I should say. majority of the men are business owners like john rogers, quentin primo, and jim reynolds. a very small minority are still corporate men. most boule membership is doctors (who have their own practice), lawyers, and business owners.

politics is different. and it may be different in different cities.

in chicago, i don’t know of any men that are in politics at the moment that are boule. jesse jackson was never invited to the boule. neither jessie white or any others.

one who may get invited soon is justin slaughter who I talked about here:

Illinois Becomes 1st State To Eliminate Cash Bail

Boule has become a mystical catch all term applied to anyone in the upper class and old lol.