Black History Month Part 10: We Were Never Less: The Defiant Ascent Of Black America: The Celebration and the Reckoning – Footnotes
Mbiti, John S. African Religions and Philosophy. 2nd ed. Oxford: Heinemann, 1990. On ancestor presence doctrine and the nature of personhood across West and Central African traditions. Thompson, Robert Farris. Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy. New York: Vintage, 1984. On the Bakongo dikenga cosmogram and its transmission to the Americas, […]
Black History Month Part 9: We Were Never Less: The Defiant Ascent Of Black America: The Misrepresentation Industry
How This Nation Has Hidden What It Did By Eric Lawrence Frazier, MBA The first weapon deployed against Black America was not the whip. It was the pen. Before the last Confederate soldier surrendered, before the ink dried on the Thirteenth Amendment, before the first Reconstruction legislature was seated — the project of rewriting what […]
Black History Month Part 9: We Were Never Less: The Defiant Ascent Of Black America: The Misrepresentation Industry – Footnotes
Early, Jubal A. A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence in the Confederate States of America. Lynchburg: Charles W. Button, 1867. Southern Historical Society founding correspondence documented in Gallagher, Gary W. The Confederate War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. United Daughters of the Confederacy. “A Measuring Rod to Test Text Books, […]
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 – Footnotes
John Ehrlichman, interview with Dan Baum, 1994. Published: Baum, Dan. “Legalize It All.” Harper’s Magazine, April 2016. Nixon, Richard M. “Special Message to the Congress on Drug Abuse Prevention and Control.” June 17, 1971. The American Presidency Project, University of California Santa Barbara. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/special-message-the-congress-drug-abuse-prevention-and-control Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, Pub. L. 99-570, 100 Stat. 3207 […]
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 7: We Were Never Less: The Defiant Ascent of Black America: We Thrived Anyway – Footnotes
1 U.S. Census Bureau. “America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2024.” Table H-7: Homeownership Rates by Race and Hispanic Origin. Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau, 2024. 2 National Association of Realtors (NAR). “2025 State of the Nation’s Housing Report.” Washington, DC: NAR, 2025. 3 National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA). “Fair Housing Trends Report 2024.” Washington, DC: […]
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 […]
