HBCU Money™ Business Book Feature – The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929
12.03.2026 04:49
👍 0
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
HBCU Money™ Business Book Feature – The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929
"Land ownership among Black Americans was more than a pathway to individual wealth; it was a bulwark against white supremacy. Land meant food security, political leverage, and a degree of independence in a nation otherwise constructed around Black dependency and racial domination."
Revisiting Red Summer: Bloodshed, Black Land, and the Battle for America’s Soil
"In other words, African Americans were not simply asking for equality; in some places, they were building it. And that may have been the greatest threat of all."
If Football Is Killing Black Boys, Then Why Are HBCUs Participating?
"Youth tackle football athletes experienced a median of 378 head impacts per athlete during the season versus 8 in flag football."
Give Black App: A Digital Gatekeeper For African American Philanthropy & Institutional Capital
"The app operates as a digital gatekeeper, cataloguing Black-led nonprofits and enabling donors—whether individuals, alumni associations, or grassroots organizations—to find and fund them with ease."
The Seven (Internal) Barriers to Building Sustainable African American Philanthropic Infrastructure
"yet frequently overlooked challenge—the internal dynamics within the African American community that impede the development of sustainable philanthropic infrastructure."
Cultural Triumph, Institutional Fragility, Financial Violence: Uncle Nearest and the Case for Black-Owned Banks
"African American households control nearly $1.7 trillion in annual spending power, but African American-owned financial institutions hold less than 0.5% of U.S. banking assets."
The Institutional Imperative: Moving Beyond Individual Black Wealth Narratives
"Individual wealth building, no matter how successful, operates within a system. Institutional wealth building shapes that system."
Schools For Husbands and Wives: Preparing African American Couples for Partnership and Institutional Power
"The decline of the two-parent household in African America has consequences not just for children, but for adults who often enter adulthood without having witnessed sustained partnership."
Giving Back to Those Who Give: How HBCU Communities Can Support Their Alumni Teachers
"Of the 1,690 HBCU alumni teachers, 1,202 have projects with zero donations."
When Rivalries Do Nothing: What 50 Cent and T.I. Could Learn from Rockefeller and Carnegie
"It will not culminate in 50 Cent funding a new research center at Howard University while T.I. answers by endowing a chair at Morehouse"
The Institutional Imperative: Moving Beyond Individual Black Wealth Narratives
"This isn’t merely a difference in scale; it’s a difference in kind. Individual wealth building, no matter how successful, operates within a system. Institutional wealth building shapes that system."
From 500 To 1: The Death Of The African-American Owned Hospital
"The numbers bear out a bleak picture of African American health today. African American life expectancy is 4.3 years less than the average American and 4.8 years less than European Americans."
Washington Was The Horse And DuBois Was The Cart – We Put The Cart Before The Horse
"If we would have a honest moment with ourselves, we would note that we have become more educated and more dependent upon other groups."
$6 Million Donation to University of the Virgin Islands Will Create First Public HBCU Medical School
"How dire is the situation for African American doctors and health professionals? African Americans have 1 doctor for every 914 people in its population."
The Impossible Mathematics: African America’s $480 Billion or $1.5 Trillion Debt Dilemma
"The current debt profile of $780 billion in mortgages against $740 billion in consumer credit represents an almost perfect inversion of healthy household finance."
HBCUs Must Build Their Own Supercomputer: A Blueprint for Computational Sovereignty
"The numbers tell a stark story. According to the National Science Foundation, the top 50 research universities in computing infrastructure investment include zero HBCUs."
50 Years Later: The Failure At Ole Miss
"We went for the as Malcolm so eloquently put “sitting on the toilet next to white folks” goal instead of the institutional fight."
The Hormuz Gambit: Is the Iran Conflict a Backdoor to make Venezuelan Oil Investable? Is Nigeria Next?
"At $60 a barrel, Levine concluded, it simply is not economical to ramp up Venezuelan production quickly, despite the staggering reserve figures on paper."
You Want a Bigger HBCU Endowment? Graduate Students in Four Years—and HBCU Alumni Must Make That Happen
"For African America, the conclusion is unmistakable. The four-year graduation rate is not merely a statistic. It is a wealth mechanism."
Morehouse Alumnus Kevin Perry Investment Brings African American Owned Banking Back To Oklahoma
"Since 2010, African American Owned Banks have seen almost 50 percent of the institutions disappear."
Family Matters: Since A Different World, Fictional African American Families All Go PWI
"The Banks children navigate high schools and social spaces that echo white privilege, and the specter of HBCUs exists only in passing remarks — not as anchors of identity or aspiration."
From Hillman to the World: How Whitley Gilbert-Wayne Built a Pan-African Art Empire
“Most HBCUs had art on their walls, but it was rarely viewed as an asset class,” explains Dr. Terrence Mathis, Hillman’s Vice President for Advancement.
From Exclusion to Empowerment: How HOAs Can Protect Black Neighborhoods
"HOAs can also insert right-of-first-refusal clauses, allowing them to buy homes before they go to outside investors, preventing predatory acquisitions."
The Lack Of Marriage Is Holding Back African American Wealth – And How HBCUs Can Help
"From an economic development perspective, marriage plays a crucial role in the transfer of wealth between generations. Households with married parents are better positioned to pass down assets."
Pan-African Donor-Advised Funds: A Blueprint For African American Financial Institutions
"A Pan-African DAF would allow African America’s wealth to pool with Diasporic wealth, creating a philanthropic capital base that could fund initiatives from Harlem to Havana, from Lagos to London."
The home of HBCU Money, HBCU Politics, HBCU Silicon Hill, HBCU Military, and HBCU Tomorrow.
Welcome, this is our unified feed for all of our media assets.
Balancing the Ledger: A Comprehensive Analysis of Athletics vs. Research Spending (MEAC/SWAC vs. SEC/Big 10)
"Stanford’s involvement in launching Google and Hewlett-Packard has helped fuel its $36 billion endowment. Wisconsin’s WARF fund manages $4 billion in research-derived assets."
