Mound Bayou - Madea's Place
Finance Roadtrip Podcast Pt. 2: The Black Wall Street Tour
Release Date: 01/07/2022
Memphis - I Am a Man Plaza
Finance Roadtrip Podcast Pt. 2: The Black Wall Street Tour
On our Memphis trip, I finally met Hill Harper in real life! Hill Harper is a Co-Founder of the Black Wall Street Wallet along with Najah Roberts and is an award-winning actor. He graduated from Harvard Law School and shared classrooms with Barack Obama. I'm all for Hill Harper’s goal to create a digital Black Wall Street (research Tulsa, Ok 1921). I also was happy to have met P. Moses, a lifetime generational activist and the founder of Black Lives Matter - Memphis Chapter. Months after we met, she was arrested and jailed for allegedly trying to register to...
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Jackson, Tn - Carl Perkins Civic Center
Finance Roadtrip Podcast Pt. 2: The Black Wall Street Tour
On this trip, Najah got to meet with Mayor Scott Conger, an alumnus of Lane College, a private HBCU a part of the Methodist Church. Scott Conger is the third member of his family to serve as Mayor of Jackson. He worked as a city councilman in the past, representing District 5 of Midtown Jackson. Mayor Scott Conger shared that he pledged to give city employees the option of converting their paychecks into Bitcoin. He also shared his plans to install a digital mining network in a deserted wing of City Hall. His ultimate goal is to make Jackson a Southeastern tech...
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Nashville, Tennessee - RH Boyd Publishing Corporation
Finance Roadtrip Podcast Pt. 2: The Black Wall Street Tour
On our Nashville trip, I met Dr. LaDonna Boyd, the CEO of RH Boyd Publishing Corporation. The history of Richard Henry (RH) Boyd and the generational wealth that he provided despite his roots of being a slave is astonishing. Dr. LaDonna Boyd is the fifth CEO and has continued their innovation to meet modern needs. This includes focusing on product development, technology, and commercial printing. After the event ended, I finally got a chance to go out with the team. We had a blast! 2022 Nashville Tour Nashville, Tennessee Friday, June 10,...
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Cool Valley - Innovation High School
Finance Roadtrip Podcast Pt. 2: The Black Wall Street Tour
On our Cool Valley trip, I was honored to have met Mayor Jayson Stewart. He is a pro-Bitcoin Mayor who was active on Clubhouse in the Black Bitcoin Billionaire multiple times. On Clubhouse, the Co-Founder of Black Bitcoin Billionaire, Lamar Wilson, presented the idea of giving residents $500 in Bitcoin to increase city growth. Not only did Mayor Stewart adopt this idea, he doubled the amount to $1,000 and added some goodwill criteria. In Cool Valley, we spoke to high school kids about Bitcoin and financial success tools. In this episode, you'll...
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St. Louis - A&B Car Wash
Finance Roadtrip Podcast Pt. 2: The Black Wall Street Tour
I didn’t see anything… I didn’t hear anything… I know nothing… All I remember was seeing Najah running and hearing my bodyguard yelling, “CJ, let’s go!” with extreme bass in his voice. With that being said, the entire St. Louis trip is a blur to me. One exception is eating Sweet Eats Fish & Chicken, which was the best chicken wings we had on tour… Delicious! We held our event at the A&B Phase II Carwash with Alderwoman Shameem Hubbard and DJ T-Bone as our city allies. It inspired me to see more black politicians active in the...
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Louisville - Club Cedar
Finance Roadtrip Podcast Pt. 2: The Black Wall Street Tour
After we left Chicago, we were meant to attend a full event in Indianapolis, but our timing was off, so we squeezed in what we could and headed towards Louisville, Kentucky. I was extremely excited to finally meet Lamar Wilson. He has been a software developer and pro-bitcoin since 2013. He's also a Co-Founder of the Black Bitcoin Billionaire (BBB) and Co-Author of Bitcoin & the American Dream. I first learned about Lamar from Dr. Boyce Watkins back in 2017. It was inspiring to have networked with him on a peer-to-peer level, not just as a student. We also met...
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Chicago - Christ Tabernacle Church & Brian Leach Basketball Court
Finance Roadtrip Podcast Pt. 2: The Black Wall Street Tour
“Let me tell you something. I’m from Chicago. I don’t break,” famously quoted by Chicagoan Barack Obama!... Fellow Chicagoan and Poet, Kweisi Gharreau, shared similar sentiments In his poem entitled ‘The Revolution Will be Digitized’. Chicagoans are known for their grittiness, opinionated nature and we received nothing but love from the people attending our speaking events. It was May 21, 2021 and this was my first time on tour where we had two speaking engagements in the same day. The first one was at Christ Tabernacle Church and the second at Brian Leach Basketball...
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Detroit - Service Learning Center
Finance Roadtrip Podcast Pt. 2: The Black Wall Street Tour
Najah and I met up at Hill Harper’s Mansion in Detroit, a 20th-century mansion Hill Harper turned into a museum. Fun facts about Hill Harper: he’s an actor and former classmate of Obama. I felt inspired to start investing in artwork as I explored the hallways of the museum. Art is not only beautiful, but it holds monetary value that we can capitalize on. In this episode, you’ll learn more about the power of NFTs through resale value and creation.
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Interlude - Shoutouts to the Homies!
Finance Roadtrip Podcast Pt. 2: The Black Wall Street Tour
While in Mound Bayou during The Digital Financial Revolution Tour with Najah Roberts, CJ's childhood friend died an early death. CJ flew to California during the tour and went to Jeremie's funeral. This episode is dedicated to CJ's friends as a way to show love while they are still living.
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Baltimore - Harlem Park
Finance Roadtrip Podcast Pt. 2: The Black Wall Street Tour
There are two distinct realities in Baltimore: One reality shows just how beautiful their natural environment is. There are a lot of lush trees and grasses all around. On the opposite end of the spectrum, their housing situation is terrible. Many man-made houses and apartments look like a war zone, but yet people are living in them. Despite that sad reality, the love Najah and I felt from the local artists and other locals can't be overstated! To top it off, with over 17,000 abandoned homes, it's an ideal place for real estate investors to rebuild homes and...
info_outlineOn our recent trip to Mound Bayou, Mississippi, we met with Dr. Donald Evans, pro-Black advocate and founder of NAAFRA.
In his interview with our road trip photographer, Velissa, he talked about Mound Bayou's history and his reasons for moving there.
One interesting fact about this town is that former slaves founded it in 1887.
They built Mound Bayou to be a self-reliant and autonomous all-black community that thrived for a long time.
In this episode, you'll learn more about Mound Bayou's history and how things are today.