Politics and public affairs. [inaudible conversation] [background sounds] i dont backed into the game about seven months ago. I didnt know who i was but we were having the best time. [laughter] [inaudible conversation] [background sounds] [background sounds] [inaudible conversation] [background sounds] [background sounds] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] i was married for 17 years. Science and technology. [inaudible conversation] if you have a book already, bring it up and get it signed. There are more copies inside as well. [inaudible conversation] this woman is the ceo and the owner and is the quickest the largest passes quickest growing right here. [inaudible conversation] in the middle, in the middle right here, april ryan. White house correspondent always have questions that we want to thanks. Ive had time to work with her over the last four or five years. I love her authenticity. She will share some information on her book, on fire. Last we have missed, the history of the black dollar. Thank you for doing the interviewing with the books today. She has secured 1 million in fundraising. The 37th black woman to secure 1 million of funding. She is right here you all. You guys are in for a treat. You can mingle with them afterwards. Then you can get on out and do all kinds of stuff. Cspan2 is here as well. Thank you and good evening everyone. My name is archery. I am the queen of storytelling. I am just so elated to see all of your faces. Its a Publishing House that i started out of the need and essentially to heal myself. Of the ten i published my first book. At the time, i wanted to highlight women, africanamerican women in my community. Because affiliate people didnt think we had examples of women who were to be honored and to be mentors and in a leadership assignment. At the time i knew i had fallen in love with writing but not enough to stay with it. So i continue to write. And in my home, in middle school, my mother was in an abusive relationship. That would help business if you knew what, i mean. Thus things that we didnt tell the public so we kept a lot of that inside. I was also the daughter of singleparent home and so as a result of those two things, i kind of had some issues that i need it to deal with. And writing the paper always listen. That became a place of healing for me. It wasnt until i resigned from a job as an assistant principal to start a new career with writing and publishing, that i realized that that set me free. So i wanted to be able to extend that same freedom to other people. If the writing. I also learned during that time that if you have a problem if theres a problem and you have a solution, that also means there is a business. So i got into the business of publishing. I wanted to understand how Publishing Houses could be more of a resource for authors as opposed to giving away all of your loyalties and royalties and content for pennies in return. So it became a personal thing for me to empower office to be educated, to empower authors and to find ways to profit from the books. As a result of that, we are on target i would say at the end of 20202 published over 200 tiles in just four short years. [applause] most importantly, i want to say that the noticed deficit and the amount of black men the published books. I dont have a problem when i am pushing my ladies, women are gogetters. So our men but is just a different scenario. As a result of that, i wanted to do something more impactful so i mayday commitment to empower 100 black men as authors through a program called the one hundreds seas of progress. Currently working with the first authors, weve divided up into quadrants of 25. So we can have those authors publish their books. Im excited because this weekend in atlanta, one of our first authors which is history for us, will be displaying his book. One hundreds promise. Please keep that in prayer and most importantly if you have a story which we all do, there its not a perfect time to tell it. You must tell it. The whole living testimony its not just words. That means that that is the brent that we paying for being here on earth. Whatever it is that youve overcome our knowledge they required so long the way, whatever information you want to hear or share with other people you have a responsibility to do that. In turn, you then create an avenue of income and empowerment and of freedom for yourself. So dont wait to write your book. Do it now. Thank you. [applause] cnet good evening everyone. Ten minutes. It is so wonderful to be here with you. Particularly this week. Your macabre pocketbooks. Im going to tell you i love mahogany books. Im going to throw a little sign on them. This is i believe the or the only africanamerican up to her the reports to the New York Times best seller list. I was even before they became brickandmortar. So thats hard. And they are doing it. I support them. Anytime i can use them, i tried to because no matter where i am in the country. I do believe in supporting us. Let me say this to you, you know absolutely right, everyone has a story. My story is uniquely different. [laughter] for many stories. Im a White House Correspondent and ive been doing that for 22 years. I started when i was like maybe two. [laughter] uncovered for president s and for United States president s. A kid from baltimore. Never expecting to be at the highest loophole in the land. On four american president s to answer my questions. Three i know the name economy, but this one i dont know, they dont call me is it too much because its okay. That is where this story comes from. In my unique walk in the white house, and strange person that i sent in, always on the table. You may not always hear about it but its always on the table. Everything deals with matters of race. Particular today we do see the president go to baltimore. What is the issue and a predominantly black town. It is run invested. While that is my town. I grew up there. So my story is the story about trying to survive. In the white house that did not view me as friendly did not view me as a person let alone a reporter. In the white house and try to take me out of there in any way they could. Calling me names, telling me stuff, shaking my head. Going after me and lying on me. Lying on me. And there is proof. It hasnt been easy. But think about this, a kid from baltimore, didnt grow up with things, you didnt raise a million dollars. He did not have the pedigree like many others. Like harvard and yale, marty State University and i go into this place, the highest office in the land. I go by myself with all of these networks, and the president of the United States targets me and i am still standing. That is what happened. Thats the story that needs to be told. It doesnt need to be a story that where we are telling each other white whispering. We need to put this on paper. So our children can understand the struggles that we still had in 2019. This its not 1950, not 1960, this is 2019 and we are still dealing with these issues of being told to sit down. Us that question. It needs to be told. And i believe that in the midst of my walk, it would help people because i found out that a lot of people are going through a lot of michael aggression on the job. Look at you all nodding your heads. Id have women come to me crying oh my god, i didnt know. Its amazing and i think wed tell her stories even if it comes from the white house. It reads like a novel. But it is real live. It is coming. It is a reality tv. It has fire in it. In need screaming out to the president of the United States. Mr. President are you a racist. One is the friend, a minister who is name is in the book who i named. He wants to throw water at me. Close your mouth, it is all right. But these are stories you would not normally hear. This is my am telling you. You need to know what is happening. We have to take the veil off. The people his house, take the veil off of the people his house. Sorry that tries to help inspire you to understand that your voice matters. Because even though i am a reporter, i am telling you what is happening day today at the white house. I am still part of that we the people. We are still forming a more perfect union. If any fighters. I am a descendent of a slave. From north carolina. But at the end of the day, those Founding Fathers, they never realized there would be one of us questioning the preston president s. They would never imagine that donald trump would be there either. I stand in those pillars that our Founding Fathers couldnt break. My story is your story. Youll see yourself in it. But it is the story for all of us to not just say well, short of our children need to know. This is what happened. I stand on the shoulders of galvan, allison ethel, those black trailblazers at the white house. There are so many others. What happened to them, in the 50s and 60s and 70 years ago, it is still happening today. I encourage you to read my story. Everybody has a story. [applause] what a tough act to follow. I am pretty sure that was easier and some of the things you know going through right now. This is such an interesting moment what made me write this book, is that i was living in an apartment it was rat infested. Right over here. And i was going through at the time with a call the valley of death. My company had been named the best fight natural product in the country by the white house. Department of education, [laughter]. And chase, we are making accolade, and you know winning the war. I was literally checking the bus back and forth between the white house and southeast. I was washing my clothes and tubbs and i was heeding out of the food pantry at duluth. Im just painting a picture for your role. I decided and i wanted, actually my electricity got cut off. God works in mysterious ways. Thats why im telling you all. I never talk about this publicly. My cameras got it is it too. [laughter] my electricity had got cut off. I didnt have any electricity for three weeks. During the period, i did not have a tv. But i had books. I would actually sit and read by the daylight that would come in from the outside and there was this little bit of light that would come in through my window and so i always have kept a pretty Expansive Library so i sat back and rereading all of these black history books that ive read as a child. Frederick douglass wd voice, melva bates, Harriet Tubman, i started going through them all. More and more, i think it was somewhere around deputy, but the book down. I said it cant read anymore of this. And the reason i cannot read anymore of it was because i felt like i was reading todays newspaper. What has changed was my question. What has happened in between over the past 150 years of us being free or even 400 years of us arriving here. I was like, wait a minute. What is going on. What happened to our money. Are you trying to tell us that every Single Person has not had any dive boat condition, no stories to go back onto, except for your walker, get a little bit of black wall street but other than that you know trying to tell me that nothing else happened in between. When i do my own personal fami family, i come from a long line of ministers. A little bit of black history. And the ministers in the south, were originally the people that have a little bit more money. Thats because people would pay their tax make donations to the minister and things like that. As a result of that, they also had more trust in the community and more trust with the slaveholders. Therefore they become some of the original share properties. That is why to this day, a lot of people in the ministry, if they are in the south, they tend to have a little bit more money. So we knew that my family had eventually bought up a ton of land. In lancaster, south carolina. Where are these other stories. I also learned that when Harriet Tubman found out that blacks were only making 67 cents on the dollar, she was on a train when she found out this information. When she got off of the train, she immediately went to her supervisor and demanded equal pay. The whites were receiving 13 and the blacks were receiving only 7. So she then made the entire black army boycott until they received equal wages. There were different absent close after that. They wanted to receive back pay for things. Some people didnt want to count that far. So the black soldiers eventually once i gave a little bit of a will pay, the eventually took the money. But Harriet Tubman never did. Until her late 90s. They finally officially apologized to her. The reason we even have a book on Harriet Tubman his because she was getting elderly and she had taken a bunch of people from our community and a lady next to her, felt there was no way that this powerful woman that achieved all of these great things, should have to pass on in this space. And so she wrote a book on her. If it was not for that lady, and this was not for harriet to have been having the gumption to boycott. There are so many things that wouldve not happened in the country including possibly as even being free with the emancipation proclamation because she would not be put down and she had help to build the black army. And because we were would be the strongest. She had their ears. So then when i realized blacks made on the dollar 2019. Sixtyseven cents. Again i thanks, what is happened in the past 150 years. Do me a favor and raise your hand if you read the diary of anne frank. Every handwrite. Why. Because its mandated. Now tell me a book that is mandated across the country that provide you the perspectives of a black slave or even a black grout that is mandated across every school in the country. Ill wait. [laughter] zero okay there isnt one. So how can we be in the same page for not reading from the same book. I was at Harvard University speaking at the school of education and i asked how many people knew that the Industrial Revolution was paid for by cotton. They didnt know this information. A lot of black people dont know this information. Guess who produce the cotton. It was the highest quality of cotton being produced for free across the world. That is how they were able to fund the Industrial Revolution. Were not talking about this in the south. The reason that the north had wall street, is because the north had businesses off of the cotton. While the south formed it and they made money from agriculture. The north we do call it clothing businesses, thinking businesses to be able to do the exchanges between the cotton companies. To be able to sell it overseas, and everything business going with the agriculture of the south is what the north handled. So were talking about the entire country elevating from free slave labor. But for some reason, the poll dont think were entitled to different things. Then to give you another little piece of food for thought. We do think about why black people do not trust institutions, i am the author of the experience study the reason there are blacks in commercials, i proved the best way to financially educate and the churches and dave ramsey and all types of other people, and while i was doing that research, they had me working on Asian American and hispanic, lgbt and then death people. I said hold up, what is going on. Why are we not focus on africanamericans. And they said to me because black people do not speak a different language. And i said, let me break something down to you. My greatgrandmother was raised by a slave. I was raised by my greatgrandmother. Zero my god zero my god zero my god you have a direct connection to slavery. Yes unavoidable your mind a little bit more. Most black people do. [laughter] so please tell me sir, where in our history, or black people have been economically educated. Where is our economic history. Why isnt conveniently conveniently neglected from our black history pages. And so with that, you learn that there is a huge disconnect of information. There has been six different times are money as it arrived and then taken from us. And there is a reason while we distrust things and put our money underneath of a pillow pillar. Its been adopted by the libraries, the state of illinois where they have chicago, or Martin Luther king set ive never been to a more racist place. They did a Research Study in the book and found that over the book has been written like it. It is my goal amongst many other things, my main goal in live, is to make sure this book is mandatory meeting across the entire country. So i hope you join me in that effort. Thank you. [applause] are going to talk now with the authors, the publisher. Find out about money the white house in the publishing. You can bring your books up. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation]. What happened to older people like me and its huge. To show how it impacts our confidence, the impacts our earning potential. So, they create that space. Somebody who has all of those matter. [inaudible] he started pulling up time just sitting there and i believe everything was okay, whats going on, and he said in this city, so thats you have a trade, you have a business you do that. Because the effect is most significant how it impacts my husband works, this was we work at bookstores where i got my start. [inaudible] she basically said having this was [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] they are taking time to is the diversity of both. [inaudible] you gotta have these conversations, its a state where we are [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [applause] if you have a book or if you have here you can come out ill take your photo. A lot of those were shocking i talked with the senator from oklahoma, he is making it mandatory for Oklahoma City to read about it. Im not joking. Hes making it mandatory. It might be in the state. Google black wall street. You said his name. Senator frankfurt. Go it if you can. I should have but i didnt. 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