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Meet the Next Generation of Black Genius

Coming back from SXSW 2016, I felt the need to do more—to have a broader impact on black college students’ exposure to entrepreneurship and ultimately their career trajectory. That’s why I made the “pledge” to NCCU, Hampton and North Carolina A&T to bring five exceptional business or engineering students to attend SXSW 2017 as a guest of Black Wall Street. [Read more on charge in the second of this three-part series.]    As the famous idiom goes “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words”, and as we say in Hip-Hop culture via re-appropriation, “A Picture is Worth a Billion Bucks”. Remember these...

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American Underground EIR Pledge: Get Local HBCU Students to SXSW in 2017

This article is part two of a three-part series on Black Wall Street’s journey to South by Southwest. Read part one. At 1:15 pm on March 13, 2016 something monumental happened in Austin, Texas. For the first time in the history of SXSW Interactive, a black-owned company, Opportunity HUB, had a presence on the SXSW trade show floor. As many of my readers already know, I ‘do it big’ in every situation. In that fashion, not only did we make history with Opportunity HUB’s presence on the SXSW floor as an official exhibitor, but this was the first year that a delegation of...

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Black Wall Street Starts National Expansion in Austin at SXSW 2016

This is part one of a three-part series about the Black Wall Street experience and diversity and inclusion programming at South by Southwest 2016. 2016 will mark my fourth South by Southwest Interactive Festival.    What started out as an obligatory ‘typical work conference’ in 2011 has become my most highly anticipated annual event. The SXSW conference has been the catalyzing event for me—one that has increased my desire to build great innovative companies, while meeting new creatives and founders in the Austin Convention Center and on the streets of Austin.    Over the years at SXSW, I have...

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