With their history of forced immigration to the United States (US), African Americans were de-cultured and dehumanized, their misery treated as ‘natural’ and benign. Today, they are an important minority in a nation with a singular degree of world influence. Much of the country’s vitality, especially its contemporary cultural life, can be credited to African Americans, but racism remains a definitive and stark reality. 

A critical aspect of the racism that African Americans face is a continuing geographic segregation in many parts of the US, a legacy of ‘Jim Crow’ laws enacted in the South after the Civil War, as well as discriminatory attitudes right across the country including the so-called ‘white flight’ from urban areas to suburbs after the Second World War.

Join our host Linda Howard and our Profound Conversationalists Hassan Ali El-Amin, Dr. Charles Lewis, and Dayvon Love.

Topics and Highlights

As people of African Descent it is important for us to have an Ecosystem of Institutions that are self sufficient and self sustaining that can be containers for the transfer of wealth we’re asking for.

“Wealth is generational.”

The U.S. Government not only needs to stop mistreating its African Americans, but it needs to build all of us up in order to build up the entire country.

As African Americans we have come a long way, but we are still not where we want to be.

In many situations, life for African Americans has gotten worse not better.

Harriet Tubman could have freed more people but she struggled to convince some that they actually were slaves.

Advocacy is sometimes done by the same people who are hurting the community.

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.  

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