Essay On 100 Black Men Of America

Across the nation, millions of Americans of all races turn on the television or open a newspaper and are bombarded with images of well dressed, articulate, attractive black people advertising different products and representing respected companies. The population of black professionals in all arenas of work has risen to the point where seeing a black physician, attorney, or a college professor are becoming more a common sight. More and more black people are holding positions of respect and authority throughout America today, such as Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Condelezza Rice and many other prominent black executives. As a result of their apparent success, these black people are seen as role models for many Americans, despite their race.

Despite the women in this group that struggle and overcome adversity in a word that’s meant to suffocate them, there are a few black women who fail to realize there magic. Some of my sisters fall short due to negative public perceptions with professionalism which causes them to shy away from investing in their future. These few outsiders who didn’t get the unwritten code/norm of what a black woman must represent allows the degradation of our group to continue.

This article is entitled, “The Problem Behind the Problem: Creating Economic Well Being for Young Men of Color,” and was published in the International Journal of Business and Public Administration. It argues that there is a need for groundwork to be established to create and maintain future economic well being for African American men. In creating this groundwork, the author, Dr. Melvinia Turner-King, believes that this foundation starts with the social responsibility of scholars, political leaders and administrators, and so on. King puts her passion for her position in this matter into play with a pilot leadership program she proposed for African American male college students, which asserts ethically and socially responsible solutions designed to fit the current cultural and economic realities of our global environment. The results also reveal the importance of public administrators and educational institutions serving in collaborative leadership enterprises. Essentially, King argues that the results from her study illustrate that the “problem behind the problem” is that successful predecessors are not reaching back and helping undereducated black males to ensure future economic stability.

effort to support and build the African Americans progress in politics, law and strong business

Thesis Statement: To examine societies contribution to the destruction of the urban African-American male, one must further explain the educational system, racism toward the African-American male, and male role models in society; in doing so it will interpret the meaning to Jawanza Kunjufu first volume: Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys (2004).

We are a premier international, non-profit volunteer service organization. Built upon a legacy of friends and providing service that changes lives, the organization is committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the cultural and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry. Celebrating 69 years, the friendship chain has grown to nearly 14,000 professional women of color in 281 chapters located in 41 states.

Over time, with the assistance of noted strong-willed African-Americans and the more liberal white American citizens, African Americans began to realize their value and intellect. This realization brought about a change in the mind-set of blacks in America. Having a new frame of mind, African-Americans began to take a stand against the prejudices and injustices that beleaguered them. Leadership in the African-American community emerged, despite the hardships

Diversity is now, more than ever before, at the forefront of the American conversation. Black people have been slowly but surely making gains in today’s society and in ways that were not possible before. African Americans are more educated and more affluent, and more important as consumers than ever before. By 2017, they are expected to have a spending power of 1.3 trillion dollars (Resilient, 2013). Young, influential, and brand loyal, this group should be the target of many companies. Interestingly enough, there has not been much of an effort on the part of marketers to appeal to this growing group. Additionally, the lack of diversity as well as the alienation of black people in the media is not doing much to allow a wider range of companies to reach them. Black Americans are a powerful group, and smart marketers will put a focus on investing in them to increase their market share.

The Annual Black Caucus is a yearly event that takes place in the Nation’s capital of Washington, DC every September. At the conference, various leaders, policy makers, and educators respectfully come together to discuss issues that face many African American communities. Most importantly, meaningful discussions on solutions to resolve these issues are debated. The Annual Black Caucus provides a platform to inform, inspire, and motivate future African American youth progressing into the 21st century and beyond.

In recognizing that the hard work or removing barriers to success for Black Male and other marginalized communities does not exist in a vacuum, partnerships with like-minded organizations that can play an extremely important role in expanding the efforts of the WRF MMWEC beyond Arkansas and create help create a national plan of action. One such partnership is with organizations like the Association of Black Foundation Executives (ABFE) Black Male Funders Learning & Action Network (LAN), which is a network of funders that currently direct resources to initiatives to improve life outcomes for Black males. By partnering and receiving financial support from ABFE, the ability to share best practices, aggregate data, and build a strategic plan

In many years, the African American community has suffer brutally from institutional racism. As Blacks were forced into becoming chattel property for Whites, they were also dehumanized from their identity. The oppressors disrupted the house family structure as they separated them apart from each other causing a repeated cycle from always missing a parent figure within their lives. Torture was also included in oppressing blacks as they planted fear into the mindset of African Americans that they cannot even love their own skin color. Lack of opportunities such as educationally, economically, and politically have been the main factors that our community lacks "success". Philanthropy is a way for our Black Leaders to give back to communities

The African American community has sat at the end of a discriminatory lens from the moment they set foot in the United States. For that reason, black communities have undergone the process of community building to ensure that all members feel a sense of belonging.

I interviewed three nonprofits located in the San Francisco Tenderloin Neighborhood. These non-profits varied in staff size, budget, and services they provide, but serve similar communities. The communities these organizations serve connect them as a network. However, they are fairly interdependent of each other, therefore the organizations are only loosely coupled (Perrow, 1972, p.196). Based on my interviews, the organizations shared similarities in influences that affected adaptations to their environments. However, their coping strategies varied in their adaptation. Variables that influenced the life cycles and the success of these particular non-profits were securing organizational funding, investing in staff leadership, and responding to political environments.

Effective and sustained leadership is vital to the success of the nonprofit agency. Leadership and leadership development can occur in small ways, but there is much is still much work to be done because of the growth of the nonprofit sector and the complexity of challenges addressed. A nonprofit organization can monitor and demonstrate effort, but measuring the impact of that effort is more challenging. As nonprofit organizations and their leaders look to the future, there are opportunities as well as challenges associated with these trends that we will explore more in depth to help myself and my nonprofit organization succeed (Bono, 2003, p557).

In our great nation, nonprofit organizations have played a critical role in helping people in need by providing education, training, residences, counseling, and in‑kind and cash support. Our nations has called upon nonprofit agencies, to take the leading role in American society in addressing social problems. Their belief in the efficacy of nonprofits combined with the current political and financial constraints on government spending, suggests an even larger service role for nonprofit organizations. We know that politics is complexed in its operating environment. There is a real danger when we choose to ignore the complexity of government and how it