In this special Black History Month edition of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black Book Discussions, we celebrate the contributions of HBCU sports with a conversation between Dr. J. Kenyatta Cavil, scholar and host of Inside the HBCU Sports Lab, and Dr. Derrick E. White, author of Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football and co-host of The Black Athlete Podcast. About the author: Born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, Dr. White earned his Ph...
Mar 20, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 13
In this special Valentine Day's edition of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black Book Discussions, we celebrate the day of love with a conversation between Jessie Moore, founder of Moorehouse Marketing, and Mike Johnson, author of Making The Love You Want. Donations for this event will be got to support 300 Seconds San Antonio, a nonprofit committed to ameliorating the effects of negative social conditions through impactful service. https://www.300secondsonline.org/ About the author: A former contest...
Mar 17, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 12
In collaboration with the North Carolina A&T Atlanta Alumni Chapter, Entrepreneurial Appetite Presents a conversation with Jelani Favors, PhD, author of the award winning Shelter in a Time of Storm: How HBCUs Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism. About the author: Jelani M. Favors, Ph.D., is an associate professor of history at Clayton State University. Favors has received major fellowships in support of his research that includes an appointment as a Humanities Writ Large Fellow a...
Feb 28, 2021•1 hr 44 min•Season 2Ep. 11
This episode of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black Book Discussions features a conversation with Calvin Williams Jr., founder of Freeman Capital--a financial planning company dedicated to providing help to "everyday people" in an effort to close the racial wealth gap at the intersection fintech, personal finance, and Black communities. Freeman Capital has recently received venture capital support from Google and Backstage Capital. As such, Calvin will also share his stories of the struggle and tri...
Feb 19, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 10
In this special Dreamweek edition of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black Book Discussions, we start the new year by celebrating Black women in a conversation facilitated by Sierra Murphy with Dr. Daina Ramey Berry and Dr. Kali Nicole Gross authors of A Black Women's History of The United States. Donations for this event will got to support the Black Ex-Students of Texas (B.E.S.T) San Antonio, a group of alumni committed to providing professional and social networking events, recruitment and retenti...
Feb 11, 2021•45 min•Season 2Ep. 9
In this edition of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black Book Discussions, we feature a conversation with Kendra Barnes-landlord, blogger, and wealth builder. This month we are going to switch things up by reading a The Key Resource Blog by Kendra Barnes. Use this link to get tips on how to start or enhance your real estate journey. https://thekeyresource.com/blog/ About Kendra: Kendra Barnes is a full-time Real Estate Investor and founder of The Key Resource . Her real estate investments afforded he...
Dec 27, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In this edition of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black Book Discussion we feature a conversation with scholar-scientist turned entrepreneur, Richelle Delia- co-founder of Housing Joint Venture. The Housing Joint Venture model provides a viable option for addressing housing affordability and a pragmatic example of how the theory of mission-driven initiatives can be put into profitable practice. The talk sums up themes gathered as an active real estate investor-scientist. Life Liberty n' Property is ...
Dec 22, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 7
In this installment of EA's Black Book Discussions join us for a conversation with Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette, President of Huston-Tillotson University-an HBCU and Dr. Eddie R. Cole, author of The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom About the Book: Some of America’s most pressing civil rights issues—desegregation, equal educational and employment opportunities, housing discrimination, and free speech—have been closely intertwined with higher education instit...
Dec 20, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Just in time for the election, Entrepreneurial Appetite, BEST San Antonio, and The Heman Sweatt Center for Black Males bring you a very special book discussion about The Defeat of Black Power Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972 by Leonard N. Moore, PhD. About the Book: "For three days in 1972 in Gary, Indiana, eight thousand American civil rights activists and Black Power leaders gathered at the National Black Political Convention, hoping to end a years-long feud tha...
Dec 18, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this bonus episode of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black book discussions we feature the continued conversation with Luc Cadet, founder of Abantu Audio. For more information about how you subscribe to Abantu Audio go to https://www.abantuaudio.com/ . Support the show https://www.patreon.com/c/EA_BookClub
Dec 18, 2020•13 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In this episode of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black Book Discussions, we feature a conversation between Hannibal B. Johnson, author of Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District, and Luc Cadet, founder of Abantu Audio, an audiobook platform that features and produces literature from Black, Brown, and Indigenous authors. https://www.abantuaudio.com https://www.hannibalbjohnson.com/books/ Support the show https://www.patreon.com/c/EA_BookClub...
Nov 20, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In this episode of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black book discussions, Dr. Maurice J.Hobson, talks about his book The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta. For those of us not from or living in one of the few Black Meccas in the United States, we hope this discussion will encourage us to think critically about creating our own. For more information about Dr. Maurice J. Hobson: https://aas.gsu.edu/profile/maurice-j-hobson/ Instagram @drmohob Twitter @DrMoHo...
Oct 29, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 2
In this inaugural episode of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black book discussions Dr. Peniel Joseph, author of The Sword and The Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. exclaims that for once we don’t have to settled for lesser of two evils, we can have the cake and eat it, we can get the best of both, we can have the Radical Malcom and the Radical Martin, We can have both the Sword and The Shield. For more information about Dr. Peniel Joseph: https://lbj.utexas.edu/...
Sep 25, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 1
