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Honoring and Maintaining the Legacy: U.S. Treasury Department Celebrating the Freedman’s Bank
Almost thirty years ago I first learned about the Freedmen’s Bureau and the Freedman’s Savings Bank (officially known as the Freedman’s Saving and Trust Company). While in college I was able to do further research on the legacy of freed Black slaves in America, and the one thing that stood in the way of their…
AME Church, AME Zion Church, economic development, economic empowerment, Emancipation Proclamation, February 7th 2016, financial dignity, financial empowerment, Financial Literacy, Freedman's Bank, Freedmen's Bureau, Freedmen's Bureau Preservation Act, Hampton University, Howard University, Jim Crow, John Hope Bryant, Natasha Foreman Bryant, Oliver Otis Howard, poverty, poverty eradication, President Abraham Lincoln, President Andrew Johnson, slavery, southern states, U.S. Treasury Department, Washington D.C. -
Rainbows After Storms
By Natasha L. Foreman Two days ago the southern region of the U.S. was tossed, turned, and in some places flattened by tornadoes that destroyed property, took innocent lives, disturbed the livelihood of thousands, and caused sleepless nights for so many. As people try to breathe and take in how to rebuild from this catastrophe…
ADD, ADHD, Alabama, catastrophe, death, destruction, drugs, gangs, Georgia, hope, John Hope Bryant, loss, Mississippi, mother nature, Natasha L. Foreman, Prince Henry, Prince William, Princess Diana, rainbows, rainbows follow storms, rebuild, royal family, southern states, Storms, teen pregnancy, Tennessee, tornadoes, Virginia
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