by John Hope Bryant | Jul 31, 2006 | Uncategorized
GULFPORT – Operation HOPE has announced a $1.1 million contract from the Mississippi Development Authority to provide financial counseling to Mississippians recovering from Hurricane Katrina. With the grant, HOPE Coalition America, Operation HOPE’s...
by John Hope Bryant | Jul 27, 2006 | Uncategorized
Without civil rights, there could be no silver rights. Thanks to the leadership of several Members of Congress, the Black Leadership Forum, the NAACP and other organizations, Congress passed and the President signed into law today the reauthorization of the Fannie Lou...
by John Hope Bryant | Jul 27, 2006 | Uncategorized
To: National Desk Contact: Kevin Sheridan of Working Families for Wal-Mart, 202-350-6680 WASHINGTON, July 26 /U.S. Newswire/ — Ambassador Andrew Young, national steering committee chairman of Working Families for Wal-Mart issued the following statement on a...
by John Hope Bryant | Jul 27, 2006 | Uncategorized
During a recent visit to Chicago to speak out on behalf of Wal-Mart, former Atlanta Mayor and United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young took the city’s elected black leadership to task for supporting the notion of a "big-box" ordinance — one that,...
by John Hope Bryant | Jul 27, 2006 | Bryant Quotes & Bryantisms
"Communism didn’t work because it could not create a middle class. Capitalism has succeeded in creating a middle class but it must still prove that it can be relevant to poor people. If not, the poor will rebel against." Andrew Young in Nigeria