America's Most Powerful Black Families

[Ish Gibor]

@IllmaticDelta, in addition pertaining the pervious post.

Skin Complexion in the Twenty-First Century Mathews, Tayler J; Johnson, Glenn S.  Race, Gender & Class; New Orleans Vol. 22, Iss. 1/2, (2015): 248-274.

Skin-Tone Trauma: Historical and Contemporary Influences on the Health and Interpersonal Outcomes of African Americans - PubMed

Empirical evidence demonstrates that racism is a source of traumatic stress for racial/ethnic minorities, particularly African Americans. Like race and racism, skin tone and experiences of colorism-an often overlooked form of discrimination that privileges lighter skinned over darker skinned...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Light Privilege? Skin Tone Stratification in Health among African Americans - PubMed

Skin tone is a significant marker used by others to evaluate and rank the social position of minorities. While skin color represents a particularly salient dimension of race, its consequences for health remains unclear. This study uses four waves of panel data from the Coronary Artery Risk...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Color Struck

link.springer.com

African American Men's Perceptions of Colorism

Colorism bias related to skin complexion is a persistent phenomenon within the African American community and often shapes the family dynamics and results in noteworthy adverse psychosocial impacts for African Americans. Researchers have examined colorism or the preference for lighter skin over...

scholarworks.waldenu.edu

 

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Ask About Black Life in 19th-Century New York​

By The New York Times February 13, 2012 12:41 pm
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Taking Questions​

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Carla L. Peterson​

Ask the author of “Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City,” a question.
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Spoiler: 2nd Q & A column

Spoiler: 3rd Q & A column

Spoiler: 4th Q & A column

 

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*brief lecture, and begins taking questions at 17:54



The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family


Nov 17, 2022
DC Public Library invites you to join us at Woodridge Neighborhood Library for a presentation and discussion with Kerri K. Greenidge, author of The Grimkes and Mellon Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University.

Sarah and Angelina Grimke—the Grimke sisters—are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most influential of the antebellum era, are still read today. Yet retellings of their epic story have long obscured their Black relatives. In The Grimkes, award-winning historian Kerri Greenidge presents a parallel narrative, indeed a long-overdue corrective, shifting the focus from the white abolitionist sisters to the Black Grimkes and deepening our understanding of the long struggle for racial and gender equality.

That the Grimke sisters had Black relatives in the first place was a consequence of slavery’s most horrific reality. Sarah and Angelina’s older brother, Henry, was notoriously violent and sadistic, and one of the women he owned, Nancy Weston, bore him three sons: Archibald, Francis, and John. While Greenidge follows the brothers’ trials and exploits in the North, where Archibald and Francis became prominent members of the post–Civil War Black elite, her narrative centers on the Black women of the family, from Weston to Francis’s wife, the brilliant intellectual and reformer Charlotte Forten, to Archibald’s daughter, Angelina Weld Grimke, who channeled the family’s past into pathbreaking modernist literature during the Harlem Renaissance.

In a grand saga that spans the eighteenth century to the twentieth and stretches from Charleston to Philadelphia, Boston, and beyond, Greenidge reclaims the Black Grimkes as complex, often conflicted individuals shadowed by their origins. Most strikingly, she indicts the white Grimke sisters for their racial paternalism. They could envision the end of slavery, but they could not imagine Black equality: when their Black nephews did not adhere to the image of the kneeling and eternally grateful slave, they were cruel and relentlessly judgmental—an emblem of the limits of progressive white racial politics.

A landmark biography of the most important multiracial American family of the nineteenth century, The Grimkes suggests that just as the Hemingses and Jeffersons personified the racial myths of the founding generation, the Grimkes embodied the legacy—both traumatic and generative—of those myths, which reverberate to this day.

 

[DrBanneker]

Who knew Ghost from Power is a Jack and Jiller?

Yes, he was back in ATL. Also, to connect to the other discussion we had in the thread on PG County, the Hardwick family is an example of a Black Catholic family that sent their kids to Catholic school (Marist, one of the top 2 Catholic HS in ATL) instead of independent private school.

 

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Spike Lee creates fellowship for Atlanta University Center graduates​

Jan 12, 2023



Fresh off seeing his mother and grandmother enshrined forever at Spelman College, filmmaker and Morehouse College graduate Spike Lee has announced a new fellowship program for Atlanta University Center graduates.
The inaugural class of five Spike Fellows, all graduating seniors, will receive a paid graduate study summer internship, executive mentorships and $25,000 in student loan payoff and debt relief.

Lee is partnering with the Gersh Agency, one of the leading talent agencies in the world, who will provide full-time job placement at the company this fall for the fellows.
The fellowships will be open to students at Morehouse, Spelman, and Clark Atlanta University (CAU).


Lee is a 1979 graduate of Morehouse but famously took his communications and film studies classes at Clark College, which is now part of CAU.
“From the jump, from the get-go, I knew when — not if — I opened a crack in the door, I was bringing as many Black and brown folks with me in front and behind the camera,” said Lee, who won an Academy Award in 2019 for “BlacKkKlansman” and whose film credits include “Malcolm X,” “Do the Right Thing,” and “School Daze,” which he shot at the AUC.

Caption

Last November, Lee was on hand when Spelman renamed the college’s admissions office after his grandmother, Zimmie Jackson, who graduated from Spelman in 1929, and his mother, Jacqueline Shelton who was in the class of 1954.

His father and grandfather also attended Morehouse.

“I know firsthand the education one receives at a historically Black college and university,” Lee said. “As my elders often told me, ‘deeds not words.’ ”

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Spike Lee creates fellowship for Atlanta University Center graduates​

Jan 12, 2023



Fresh off seeing his mother and grandmother enshrined forever at Spelman College, filmmaker and Morehouse College graduate Spike Lee has announced a new fellowship program for Atlanta University Center graduates.
The inaugural class of five Spike Fellows, all graduating seniors, will receive a paid graduate study summer internship, executive mentorships and $25,000 in student loan payoff and debt relief.

Lee is partnering with the Gersh Agency, one of the leading talent agencies in the world, who will provide full-time job placement at the company this fall for the fellows.
The fellowships will be open to students at Morehouse, Spelman, and Clark Atlanta University (CAU).


Lee is a 1979 graduate of Morehouse but famously took his communications and film studies classes at Clark College, which is now part of CAU.
“From the jump, from the get-go, I knew when — not if — I opened a crack in the door, I was bringing as many Black and brown folks with me in front and behind the camera,” said Lee, who won an Academy Award in 2019 for “BlacKkKlansman” and whose film credits include “Malcolm X,” “Do the Right Thing,” and “School Daze,” which he shot at the AUC.

Caption

Last November, Lee was on hand when Spelman renamed the college’s admissions office after his grandmother, Zimmie Jackson, who graduated from Spelman in 1929, and his mother, Jacqueline Shelton who was in the class of 1954.

His father and grandfather also attended Morehouse.

“I know firsthand the education one receives at a historically Black college and university,” Lee said. “As my elders often told me, ‘deeds not words.’ ”

That’s awesome. Congrats to the AUC and to spike lee

 

[DrBanneker]

Spike Lee creates fellowship for Atlanta University Center graduates​

Jan 12, 2023



Fresh off seeing his mother and grandmother enshrined forever at Spelman College, filmmaker and Morehouse College graduate Spike Lee has announced a new fellowship program for Atlanta University Center graduates.
The inaugural class of five Spike Fellows, all graduating seniors, will receive a paid graduate study summer internship, executive mentorships and $25,000 in student loan payoff and debt relief.

Lee is partnering with the Gersh Agency, one of the leading talent agencies in the world, who will provide full-time job placement at the company this fall for the fellows.
The fellowships will be open to students at Morehouse, Spelman, and Clark Atlanta University (CAU).


Lee is a 1979 graduate of Morehouse but famously took his communications and film studies classes at Clark College, which is now part of CAU.
“From the jump, from the get-go, I knew when — not if — I opened a crack in the door, I was bringing as many Black and brown folks with me in front and behind the camera,” said Lee, who won an Academy Award in 2019 for “BlacKkKlansman” and whose film credits include “Malcolm X,” “Do the Right Thing,” and “School Daze,” which he shot at the AUC.

Caption

Last November, Lee was on hand when Spelman renamed the college’s admissions office after his grandmother, Zimmie Jackson, who graduated from Spelman in 1929, and his mother, Jacqueline Shelton who was in the class of 1954.

His father and grandfather also attended Morehouse.

“I know firsthand the education one receives at a historically Black college and university,” Lee said. “As my elders often told me, ‘deeds not words.’ ”

Dope, I didn't know Spike had a legacy like that.

 

[RickyDiBiase]

I aspire to have a legacy like some of the people ITT

Even if I won’t be around to see it

 

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Desiree married Chicago businessman John W. Rogers

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

Mellody Hobson is his CEO

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.

 

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brief lecture, and begins taking questions at 17:54



The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family

I've read about the Grimkes some years ago. Archibald, Francis, and John became very successful in DC and their family became a powerful dynasty there. I did hear that after their white father died, who acknowledged them, they were given to their white half-brother who was particularly evil to them and their family experienced a lot of tragedy before they were able to make it up to DC. Behind a lot of black success is a lot of family tragedy which is unfortunate.

 

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Yes, he was back in ATL. Also, to connect to the other discussion we had in the thread on PG County, the Hardwick family is an example of a Black Catholic family that sent their kids to Catholic school (Marist, one of the top 2 Catholic HS in ATL) instead of independent private school.

Thanks. You seem to know the ins and outs of Atlanta. I have family in Atlanta. My cousin was one of the black Atlanta businessmen that transformed Atlanta into the "black mecca" it is today. I'll DM you his name, you may have heard of him. He's part of that old Cascade H. J. Russell/Maynard Jackson crowd.

 

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Dope, I didn't know Spike had a legacy like that.

Yep.

Spike wasn't really outside the lineage. Spike was a Morehouse graduate. His father was a Morehouse graduate. And his mother was a graduate of Spelman. His grandfather was a Morehouse graduate. And his great grandfather graduated from Tuskegee. Spike is three generations Morehouse.

 

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"Slow and steady wins the race" - Rogers investing philosophy. Been hearing that my whole life since my parents first invested $1k for me when I was 7y.o. in one of his mutual funds.

Since college, I've been fascinated by his career success especially since he started his company at 24. He had only worked for a year or two at one company before that - William Blair Investments, which was started by William McCormick Blair, John D. Rockefeller's nephew. William Blair is one of Chicago's elite investment banks, super hard to get into. For a time, I had been trying to get into there.

But it just amazes me that after a year or two there, he had the necessary skill and capital to start his fund at 24. It's just amazing.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

what docu is that clip from?