The AME Church: Economic Empowerment
http://www.thethirdreconstruction.com — Educate, organize and mobilize — Economic empowerment and wealth creation are considered to be the most significant unfinished business of the Civil Rights Movement. As we’ve reported before, our goal for The Third Reconstruction is to help build a network of individuals and organizations committed to a non-racial, equal opportunity America characterized by political, economic, and social justice.
Several months ago the AME Church laid down a marker that it would be wise if other churches and organizations would follow. In her article AME Church Leaders Cite Black Economic Empowerment as 2015 goal, Hazel Trice Edney noted that Reverend Jonathan Weaver says A.M.E. pastors, led by Bishop William P. DeVeaux, are now poised to carry out a specific plan that they hope will spread to other denominations and ultimately catch fire in other denominations and the Black community throughout 2015.
Wrote Edney, the starting plan, in a nutshell, is for churches located in the A.M.E. Second District – North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and D.C. – to commit to the support of two Black-owned businesses. They are Thomas Morehead, president of a BMW dealership in Sterling, Va. and Donnell Thompson, co-founder/co-owner of RWDT Foods, Inc., a chain of restaurants based in N. Snellville, Ga. The link to the full article follows: http://bit.ly/1vWNqVB
Just for the record, I’m a Que and I trust and pray that Omega Psi Phi will embrace this initiative. Great work AME.
www.thethirdreconstruction.com is a blog whose goal, as noted above, is to help build a network of organizations and individuals committed to political, economic, and social justice. To accomplish this, our blog tracks individuals and organizations that are involved in initiatives that are supportive of our goals. On our blog we will post topics that relate to the various initiatives and solicit public input that will help the various efforts succeed. We will eventually have threads for the various topics/issues and hope that you’ll sign up and post your comments or questions.
In addition to the Black Church we are tracking the Moral Monday Movement and their issues of voter suppression, Medicaid expansion, minimum wages and others. We are tracking elected officials on many of their efforts, including The Affordable Care Act, economic disparity, and voting rights. We are tracking Black Lives Matter and their issues, which include police misconduct, Black immigration, ending the prison industrial complex, and passing the Ending the Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) into law.
In addition to www.thethirdreconstruction.com blog we maintain multiple Facebook pages, groups, and another website. On all of our Internet sites and in Greater Diversity News, we continuously write and post articles and comments that we believe are relevant to our blog topics and articles detailing the history of Blacks in America with all of its hate filled, bloody brutality.
As a people, Blacks must know their past because many public policies from our past continue to pose grave threats to us today. And of course, there are many that believe that those that don’t know their past are doomed to repeat it.
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The AME Church: Economic Empowerment
Several months ago the AME Church laid down a marker that it would be wise if other churches and organizations would follow. In her article AME Church Leaders Cite Black Economic Empowerment as 2015 goal, Hazel Trice Edney noted that Reverend Jonathan Weaver says A.M.E. pastors, led by Bishop William P. DeVeaux, are now poised to carry out a specific plan that they hope will spread to other denominations and ultimately catch fire in other denominations and the Black community throughout 2015.
Wrote Edney, the starting plan, in a nutshell, is for churches located in the A.M.E. Second District – North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and D.C. – to commit to the support of two Black-owned businesses. They are Thomas Morehead, president of a BMW dealership in Sterling, Va. and Donnell Thompson, co-founder/co-owner of RWDT Foods, Inc., a chain of restaurants based in N. Snellville, Ga. The link to the full article follows: http://bit.ly/1vWNqVB
Just for the record, I’m a Que and I trust and pray that Omega Psi Phi will embrace this initiative. Great work AME.
www.thethirdreconstruction.com is a blog whose goal, as noted above, is to help build a network of organizations and individuals committed to political, economic, and social justice. To accomplish this, our blog tracks individuals and organizations that are involved in initiatives that are supportive of our goals. On our blog we will post topics that relate to the various initiatives and solicit public input that will help the various efforts succeed. We will eventually have threads for the various topics/issues and hope that you’ll sign up and post your comments or questions.
In addition to the Black Church we are tracking the Moral Monday Movement and their issues of voter suppression, Medicaid expansion, minimum wages and others. We are tracking elected officials on many of their efforts, including The Affordable Care Act, economic disparity, and voting rights. We are tracking Black Lives Matter and their issues, which include police misconduct, Black immigration, ending the prison industrial complex, and passing the Ending the Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) into law.
In addition to www.thethirdreconstruction.com blog we maintain multiple Facebook pages, groups, and another website. On all of our Internet sites and in Greater Diversity News, we continuously write and post articles and comments that we believe are relevant to our blog topics and articles detailing the history of Blacks in America with all of its hate filled, bloody brutality.
As a people, Blacks must know their past because many public policies from our past continue to pose grave threats to us today. And of course, there are many that believe that those that don’t know their past are doomed to repeat it.
Join the growing numbers of people that are committing themselves to fight for political, economic and social justice and please ask your affiliated churches and organization to join in the efforts.
GDN covers news that is vital to unrepresented and underserved communities. We need your financial support to help us remain viable.
Peter Grear, Esq. writes for Greater Diversity News and www.thethirdreconstruction.com with a primary focus on political, social and economic justice. To support our efforts, to unite our politics and economics, please “Like” and follow us at http://www.facebook.com/ThirdReconstruction. Please “Share” our articles and post your ideas and comments on Facebook or at our websites www.GreaterDiversity.com and http://www.thethirdreconstruction.com. Finally, please ask all of your Facebook “Friends” to like and follow our pages. •