Women’s History Month 2026 Part 1: Maggie Lena Walker
MAGGIE LENA WALKER Banker. Entrepreneur. Richmond, Virginia | 1864 – 1934 | Banking, Finance & Black Economic Self-Determination By Eric Lawrence Frazier, MBA | The Power Is Now Media WHO SHE WAS, IN FULL There is a house on Leigh Street in Richmond, Virginia, that the National Park Service now maintains as a historic site. […]
Black History Month Part 10: We Were Never Less: The Defiant Ascent Of Black America: The Celebration and the Reckoning
The Celebration and the Reckoning By Eric Lawrence Frazier, MBA Welcome to Part Ten — the final essay of a ten-part series. We begin with The Crossing. The laboratory of race science. The navigation strategies of Frederick Douglass. The theological weapon of the slaveholder’s Bible. The systematic destruction of Reconstruction. The federal architecture of the […]
Ruby
She married young, ready to take on life, Ready to love, to lead, to be a wife, She built a house where discipline ran deep, And raised up daughters she intended to keep. She was an entrepreneur before she knew the name, Always with an idea, always with a flame, A dealmaker, a designer, […]
The Frazier Woman: A Tribute to Ruby Lee Frazier and the Daughters She Raised
By Eric Lawrence Frazier, MBA The picture in the header of this article is one of many group pictures I have of my wife and daughters. You can see more of them on the website of FrazierGroupRealty.com. They look like women who have stepped off the cover of Ebony magazine. They are Nubian queens — […]
Black History Month Part 8: We Were Never Less: The Defiant Ascent Of Black America: Old America
The Racial Calculation Behind Every Policy This Nation Has Ever Called Something Else By Eric Lawrence Frazier, MBA The birth of America was not about freedom. Every school child is taught otherwise, and the teaching is not entirely wrong — the men who signed the Declaration of Independence genuinely believed in the Enlightenment philo-sophy they […]
Black History Month Part 7: We Were Never Less: The Defiant Ascent of Black America: We Thrived Anyway
Harriet. Frederick. Marcus. Malcolm. Martin Luther King. Are you there? Of course you are. You are still present. You are still witnesses. Unseen — but not unheard. You are here not as memory, because memory describes the past as gone, and you are not gone. You are here. You were here before us, and you […]
Black History Month Part 6: We Were Never Less: The Defiant Ascent of Black America: The Architecture of Exclusion
How the Federal Government Built the Racial Wealth Gap — and Why It Has Never Been Repaired By Eric Lawrence Frazier, MBA The Syndicate The United States of America is the original apartheid state. South Africa’s apartheid system began formally in 1948 and ended in 1994 — forty-six years of state-enforced racial separation that the […]
Black History Month Part 5: We Were Never Less: The Defiant Ascent of Black America: Reconstruction and the First Betrayal
How Every Promise Made to Black America Was Earned, Not Given — and Then Systematically Taken Back By Eric Lawrence Frazier, MBA The Pattern There is a pattern in American history that is so consistent, so documented, and so precisely repeated across 160 years that it can no longer be described as a series of […]
Black History Month Part 4: We Were Never Less: The Defiant Ascent of Black America: The Bible and the Whip
How Sacred Text Became a Weapon — and What the People It Was Used Against Did with the Same Book By Eric Lawrence Frazier, MBA The Two Weapons The apparatus of American racial slavery required two instruments of control. The first was physical. The whip, the chain, the brand, the auction block, the patrol, the […]
Black History Month Part 3: We Were Never Less: The Defiant Ascent of Black America: The Mirror America Still Cannot Look Into
Frederick Douglass, the Fourth of July, and the Contradiction That Has Never Been Resolved By Eric Lawrence Frazier, MBA The Man and the Moment On July 5, 1852, a man stood before an audience of approximately 600 people in Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, and delivered an address that remains, 174 years later, the […]
