Cultural Triumph, Institutional Fragility, Financial Violence: Uncle Nearest and the Case for Black-Owned Banks "(African American) Wealth is preserved and multiplied not through consumption but through financial intermediation like banks, insurers, investment funds, and cooperatives."

No, Your (Black) Parents Are Never Giving You Your Birth Certificate "Black people in America—and Black immigrants especially—understand the stakes of documentation in ways others simply don’t. It’s not just paper. It’s protection. It’s legitimacy. It’s survival."

Russell Wilson and Ciara Wilson: The Quiet Matchmakers Reshaping Black Love and Its Implications for African American Institutions "They’re not hoping love happens. They’re creating the conditions for it."

Buy Mediterranean Before Boardwalk: Real Estate Investment Lessons From Monopoly "There are really two types of investment properties in real estate regardless of whether it is commercial or residential; they are cash flow or appreciation."

Dwayne Wayne And Ron Johnson Dropped The Ball – HBCUpreneurship "No matter a student’s academic department at their HBCU there should be an entrepreneurship class specifically designed for their major."

Leave The Bands At Home: HBCU Football Should Leave Their Bands Behind For Road Games "an HBCU saves $180,000 annually by not sending its marching band to four away games. If that amount were instead directed into an endowment, compounded over 30 years, would grow to approximately $3.1 million."

Financier & Norfolk State University Alumnus Ralph Newsome Publishes Children’s Financial Literacy Book "A lot of times, in the Black community, money talk is taboo."

Teaching the Next Generation: A Guide to Empowering African American Youth Through Strategic Philanthropy "Explain that when Black communities don’t adequately fund our own policy organizations, others define the agenda affecting our lives."

With So Much Oil In HBCU States – Where Are HBCU Alumni Owned Energy Firms? "At places like the University of Texas or Texas A&M, oil research institutes, private equity-backed incubators, and billion-dollar endowments serve as launchpads for energy ventures. No HBCU operates at that scale."

How the Government Helped White Americans Steal Black Farmland – And Why 1890 HBCUs Are Partially To Blame "American Economic Association’s Papers and Proceedings journal that will value the land lost between 1920 and 1997 at approximately $326 billion."

Institutional Agriculture: How HBCUs and Black Banks Can Build a Farm Credit System of Our Own "The global contest for food security is intensifying. Nations that control food production, water, and soil fertility will control the future."

HBCU LOVE: Top Ten HBCU States With Highest African American Marriage Rate 1. Virginia – 34.0% 2. Maryland – 33.2% 3. Delaware & Texas – 32.8%

HBCU LOVE: Top Ten HBCU States With Highest African American Marriage Rate "The question then becomes how can HBCUs, their alumni, and other support organizations encourage more marriage among African Americans at HBCUs?"

The Only African American Owned Bank In Texas Selects Morris Brown College Alum As Its Next CEO "This also means a strengthening of ties between HBCUs and the African America private sector are that much stronger."

Would The Ivy League Athletic Model Work For HBCUs? "At the core of this delusion though is that the wealth gap between P5 athletics boosters and HBCU boosters larger than the wealth gap between is greater than the southern most tip of Florida to upstate New York."

Appeased: Mississippi’s Flagship HBCU Gets An “Agreement” Instead Of A Law School "A law school at Jackson State University would create an environment where Black legal scholars can thrive, challenging systemic inequities in higher education."

Revisiting Red Summer: Bloodshed, Black Land, and the Battle for America’s Soil "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."

The Decline Of African American Administrators, Faculty, and Staff Endangers The Cultural IQ of HBCUs "And at the center of this storm is a vanishing pipeline of HBCU alumni becoming the very educators and institutional leaders these colleges desperately need."

RED ALERT: HBCU Money will indefinitely be suspending its African American Jobs Report due to uncertainty of BLS data.

Have HBCUs Given Up On Recruiting African American Students? "The situation has also been shaped by the recruitment arms race. PWIs now actively recruit top Black students with full-ride scholarships, aggressive outreach, and promises of diversity and inclusion."

Teaching the Next Generation: A Guide to Empowering African American Youth Through Strategic Philanthropy Starting Early: Philanthropy for Elementary Ages (5-10) "Begin with concrete examples from African American history. Tell them about the Free African Society, founded in 1787."

African American To Africa: Howard University’s Volleyball Team Reminds Us Why Our Diasporic Relationship Is Critical "In an increasingly interconnected world, fostering relationships with African institutions helps HBCU students develop global competencies."

Pan-African Donor-Advised Funds: A Blueprint For African American Financial Institutions "If African American financial institutions are to play a central role in reshaping the destiny of our people, they must learn to wield the tools of modern philanthropy at scale."

The Quiet Collapse of HBCU-Based Credit Unions — and What Michigan State’s $8.26 Billion Juggernaut Reveals About the Cost "MSUFCU’s assets are not just larger than the combined total of HBCU credit unions they exceed the total assets of virtually all African American credit unions in the country."

Teaching the Next Generation: A Guide to Empowering African American Youth Through Strategic Philanthropy "Start conversations early. Make giving a family practice. Teach children to evaluate organizations critically."

It’s Complicated: The 2019-2020 HBCU Graduate Student Loan Debt Report "Looking at the numbers even further shows that HBCU Graduates debt is almost 30 percent higher than their PWI major endowed counterparts. This despite HBCUs being significantly cheaper"

The Final Four: African American Boarding Schools On The Verge Of Extinction "It is time we go ever further and start to create a culturally relevant school system (pipeline) that is tailored to the needs of our children and communities there within."

$50,000 From TI to Morris Brown: The Math of Good Intentions and the Silence of Black Entertainment Wealth "reads less like a philanthropic commitment and more like a line item, something that allows the story to be told without fundamentally changing the financial equation."

5 Ways Black Men Can Invest In Black Boys "The question now is what going forward can Black men do to holistically develop and improve the outcomes of Black boys."

Universal Pre-K Will Do More Harm Than Good To African American Children (Unless): A Critical Analysis "We need only examine the outcomes of the public school system as it stands now for African Americans to realize what the outcomes of universal pre-k would produce."

The Gridiron Mirage: Debunking the NFL as the Engine of African American Wealth "This is not a critique of sports per se. Athletics can inspire and galvanize. But the mythologizing of football as a viable strategy for racial uplift is akin to mistaking a single rainstorm for an irrigation system."

The HBCUpreneur Corner™ – University Of The District Of Columbia’s Donna Shuler & Answer Title "How do you handle complex problems? I believe in researching an issue and weighing my options. Also, it helps to have the input/perspective of a business partner."

Where Is The African American MBA At HBCUs? "The long-term vision? A Black entrepreneurial ecosystem rivaling that of Cambridge or Palo Alto, but infused with the resilience, cultural currency, and social mission uniquely forged by African American history."

Charlamagne Tha God & Jemele Hill: The Debate They Both Got Right and Wrong "This is the distinction African America must confront. We keep choosing roles instead of building infrastructure. We choose jobs. We do not choose institutions. We chase wages. We do not chase ownership."

Would Huey & Riley Freeman Attend An HBCU? "Riley ignorant of his cultural identity, Huey militantly attempting to push his Afrocentricity into an Eurocentric institutional space, and Grandad feeling as if he has “made it” because he is able to eat cheese with The Man."

Pan-African Donor-Advised Funds: A Blueprint For African American Financial Institutions "If African American banks, credit unions, and HBCUs were to host their own DAF platforms, they would retain both the capital and the influence."

Balancing the Ledger: A Comprehensive Analysis of Athletics vs. Research Spending (MEAC/SWAC vs. SEC/Big 10) "Many HBCUs and smaller institutions already are incubators of brilliance but they’ve been left out of the research-to-wealth pipeline due to underfunding and limited infrastructure."

A Different World, Same Old Hierarchies: Colorism, Class, and the Untold Pairings of Hillman College Their absence is not simply a matter of creative choice, but rather a symptom of entrenched internalized hierarchies of colorism, class, and gendered desirability—even in Black-led creative spaces.

The Quiet Collapse of HBCU-Based Credit Unions — and What Michigan State’s $8.26 Billion Juggernaut Reveals About the Cost "That means a single predominantly white university credit union holds more than 107 times the combined assets of every HBCU-based credit union still in existence."

The Billionaire Families Of Harlem Nights’ Club Sugar Ray’s Empire "The year is 1938 in Harlem, New York and an entrepreneur and his son are about to make themselves and their six lieutenants’ families 86 years later the wealthiest African American families that nobody has ever heard of."

As of this writing, 1,690 HBCU alumni are actively seeking support on @donorschoose.bsky.social, the crowdfunding for classroom projects. 1,661 of them work in historically underfunded schools. That’s 98% of HBCU alumni teachers on the platform working in institutions starved of adequate resources.

Giving Back to Those Who Give: How HBCU Communities Can Support Their Alumni Teachers "1,690 HBCU alumni teachers, 1,202 have projects with zero donations. They’ve submitted requests for books, supplies, technology, and classroom materials, and they’re waiting for someone to care enough to help."

$50,000 From TI to Morris Brown: The Math of Good Intentions and the Silence of Black Entertainment Wealth "At a standard 5% endowment withdrawal rate, a $50,000 contribution generates $2,500 per year or just over $200 per month in spendable income."

If Football Is Killing Black Boys, Then Why Are HBCUs Participating? "Nine in 10 former NFL players reported suffering concussions while playing, and nearly six in 10 reported three or more. Two in three who had concussions said they experience continuing symptoms from them."

Consumer Credit Now Rivals Mortgage Debt in African American Households "The African American community stands alone in this precarious position, where high-interest, unsecured borrowing rivals the debt secured by appreciating assets."

$30 Billion: The Endowment Needed To Close The Annual Associate’s Degree Gap Between African American Men-Women "There is even an argument that should this miraculous endowment appear if it should be spent on African American men ages 18-40 or if it should be focused on African American boys."

Pan-African Donor-Advised Funds: A Blueprint For African American Financial Institutions "By 2045, African American banks could be managing $100 billion in Pan-African DAFs, with $7–10 billion flowing annually into HBCUs, African universities, hospitals, and think tanks."

HBCUs Can Fill the Void: How America’s Retreat from Polar Research Creates an Unprecedented Opportunity for Black Academic Leadership "they’ll watch other institutions and nations claim leadership in domains that will define 21st-century research prestige and funding."

The Debt That Could Bind Us: Why African American Banks Must Engage African Debt Markets to Strengthen Diaspora Sovereignty "For too long, the African diaspora’s relationship with Africa has been philanthropic or cultural rather than financial."

The “Real World” Myth: How Sending African American Children to PWIs Undermines African American Institutional Power "They assume that because the U.S. labor market is majority white, exposure to that environment early on is critical to future success."