Investing

Mar 10 2011

Change thinking will change your life

I have a mission to educate people about their finances help them become the 5 percent of 65-year-olds who retire wealthy and self-sufficient, versus the 95 percent that have a retirement of dependence. 

Yes, we should make sure we live for the now, but, at the same time, live for the future. Let’s make sure our monies are going places to store wealth that will pay us for years to come, when we stop working that job. 

Jul 22 2010

Success takes planning, planning and more planning

Investing has become this ominous word in the last few years, with no one knowing the true meaning. For example, we had people who called themselves investors during the most recent real estate boom, but really were speculators or gamblers, who bought property and prayed that home values would keep rising.
 
Investing is a plan; a path to get you from point A (where you are now) to point B (a comfortable retirement) and beyond.
 

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.

California
San Diego college students and volunteers will carry out their sixth home restoration project on Wednesday, July 10 through Sunday, July 14. as part of the “Healing our Heroes’ Homes” (H3) program created by the nonprofit Embrace. The five-day effort will take place at the home of medically retired Marine Corps Capt. Sarah Bettencourt. Bettencourt served with many different units across the country during the Global War on Terrorism and developed a rare neurological disorder in 2008. With a focus to restore the homes of disabled veteran homeowners, H3 falls in line with Embrace’s mission to mobilize college-student volunteers and community members to serve less fortunate members of civilian and veteran communities. The project for the Bettencourts’ home includes kitchen and bathroom remodeling, building ADA-compliant disability ramps, widening their driveway to ADA standards, widening doorways and landscaping.
 
District of Columbia
The 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will showcase its five-year community research project on African American identity with the program “The Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and Identity.” This multicity collaboration examines the history and culture of the aesthetics of African Americans. The festival will be held June 26-30 and July 3-7, outdoors on the National Mall between Seventh and 14th streets. “Whether we realize it or not, we are all dress artists. The way we compose our look is a creative expression of our ideas about who we are and who we aspire to be,” said Diana N’Diaye, program curator. “This program explores the diversity of African American traditions of style, but also teaches young people the importance of documenting their own culture and saving that information for themselves and future generations.”