John William Templeton: Recent Episodes
John William Templeton
Co-founder of National Black Business Month and historian analyzes current events through the lens of history, economics and demographics
There's no better way to use unscheduled time than to expand your mind through reading. We recommend the writings of 18th and 19th century African-Americans who have clear insights about the challenges we face today. Our 90-day liberation curriculum beginning April 22 relies on those expressions for higher values.
Without the opportunity to spend freely, let's make our black businesses an essential part of our recovery budget by committing to spend at least $125 apiece with black businesses, churches, HBCUs, non-profits, financial institutions, health practitioners, political candidates and international causes between now and August. At similar inflection points in black history, a unified economic focus transformed history such as the 4,700 chapters of the Loyal League in 1863 and the millions who joined the United Negro Improvement Association in the 1920s, or Harlem retail action of the 1940s, the Montgomery bus boycott of the 1950s and the United San Francisco Freedom Movement of the 1960s. Read more in Hope over Hate: State of Black Business, 17th edition being released April 22 during Innovation&Equity19 at blackbusinessmonth.com
The traditional role of the black church has been to organize its community against danger. Although regular worship services are curbed, congregations must take on such roles as contact tracing and health education to follow the wisdom of Jesus whose first priority was healing the sick.
In the third of a five part series, John William Templeton points to the economic opportunities from addressing the health disparities highlighted by the pandemic. His latest report Hope over Hate: State of Black Business, 17th edition, comes out April 22 during Innovation&Equity19: Healing the Diaspora.
In the second of a series of five podcasts, John William Templeton, co-founder of National Black Business Month in August, stresses the importance of ending the financial distancing that African-Americans have practiced with each other by avoiding black-owned businesses, which support their communities and provide jobs. He cites the examples of a New Orleans grocer who is the only one serving the Lower Ninth Ward, a restaurant that coverted to a grocery store, Melba's in Harlem which he visited in November and smart phone and health monitoring innovator Freddie Figgers. Quoting billionaire Robert Smith, "all we got is us."
As African-Americans are perched on the banks of the Red Sea in the eye of the storm of a pandemic, severe weather and a depression, historian John William Templeton points out that this is our time to shine because we are accustomed to excelling through uncertainty. He discusses the upcoming Hope Over Hate: State of Black Business, 17th edition. He is also author of Jazz Management: the Art of Planned Improvisation.
This confession, created in South Africa in 1986 to propel the end of apartheid, describes racial discrimination as a sin and calls on the church to witness against such behavior. It was adopted by the Presbyterian Church USA in 2016. John William Templeton is a fourth-generation Prsbyterian elder whose family jjoined the denomination before 1780.
Historian, business editor and expert witness John William Templeton links anti-trust policy and the resurgence of racism in this analysis of today's concentration patterns with the late 19th century and early 20th century. The former editor of the San Jose Business Journal was an expert in the Microsoft anti-trust MDL litigation for the California plaintiffs. He's currently in litigation with Amazon and Google about the unautorized use of his name and products.
John William Templeton, co-founder of National Black Business Month and author of Hope over Hate: State of Black Business, 17th edition, follows up on his lecture at University of California-San Francisco about the impact of black doctors in the healthy development of black neighborhoods. He is chair of the board of the Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp. in New York City and part of the development team for the Dr. T. Nathaniel Burbridge Center for Inclusive Innovation in San Francisco. These topics are part of Healing the Diaspora on April 22
John William Templeton is the author of a trilogy of books on the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. He was the speaker on the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass' birthday at the African-American Civil War Memorial and for the 150th anniversary of California abolitionist Rev. Thomas Starr King. He is former editor of the San Jose (CA) Business Journal, Richmond (VA) Business Journal, Richmond AFRO-AMERICAN and Winston-Salem Chronicle. He has published blackmoney.com since 1995 and is co-founder of National Black Business Month. More on his 60 books at johnwilliamtempleton.com
John William Templeton, author of a trilogy of books on the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, describes the historical reality behind our current discussion of state's rights during the response to the pandemic.