Quick note from Dr. Boyce:
Hey peeps,
This month, black unemployment went up in every single category (men, women, teens), while white unemployment went down in every category. So, while this month was hailed as a good employment month for all of America, it was atrocious for black folks. But Malcolm X told us long ago that we will never achieve our collective economic security if we are always waiting for someone else to save us. That's why we've created our Ujamaa Initiative to support black owned businesses. Thousands of you have signed up already, but we are still pushing for our goal of 10,000 by the end of the year. You can sign up for free by clicking here.
Secondly, if you or anyone you know is looking for a job, we invite you to apply for or list jobs on our jobs board, which you can find by clicking here.
Third, I am planning to offer the first of several online Interactive Lecture Series within the next month. The first lecture series is entitled "Finding Your Own Personal Juneteenth: Escaping the Grasp of Socio-Economic Slavery." The class will focus on the multitude of ways in which African Americans continue to find ourselves unduly constrained in a capitalist society on both individual and aggregate levels. We also discuss manners through which you can understand the cage that keeps some of us trapped, and how you can design your own key to get out of this spiritual and psycho-sociological cage.
The seminars will give me a chance to interact with some of you directly, as a professor does with students in a classroom(classes have to be kept small initially, as I am testing out the process). Given that it's not easy to pay the $40,000 per year tuition to sit in my class here at Syracuse, I worked hard with my team to come up with a simpler, more scalable and affordable alternative. If you have an interest in being a part of the lecture series, please click here to sign up for free.
This Interactive Lectures will be the first to be offered by me and the long list of experts who subscribe to Your Black World. We literally have hundreds of scholars, physicians, relationship experts, small business consultants, activists and educators in the YBW family. It makes no sense for all that knowledge to be out there and not brought together to help each of us to live our best life.
Finally, the Less Talk, More Action Empowerment Tour heads to New Orleans on January 27th. I hope you'll come out if you live in the area. Our townhall meeting will be at Loyola University at 6:00 pm. The goal of the tour is to help black folks find tangible and productive solutions to the economic crisis being faced by our community. To find out more about the tour, please click here.
Until we meet again, stay strong, be blessed and be educated: Brilliant, bold and beautiful is surely the new black.
Dr. Boyce Watkins
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