What can Families Learn from Killer Mike?
Michael Render — known better as his stage name, Killer Mike — has been using his professional platform to help elevate others for more than a decade. In June 2020 after George Floyd’s murder, he was asked by the mayor of Atlanta to speak to demonstrators, imploring them to be peaceful. The empathy and emotion that he demonstrated as he spoke was arresting.
Killer Mike’s Greenwood Venture Integrates Wealth Education, Black Wall Street History
American rapper, Michael “Killer Mike” Render, is aiming to revive Black Wall Street with Greenwood, a digital banking platform inspired by the early 1900’s Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Celebrating Black History
The origin of Black History Month dates back to 1915 when it was founded by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). It was 50 years after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
The Wealth of Knowledge
I was spared the struggle that nearly every single one of my friends in had to deal with: weighing the price of colleges against their merits. As I watched my friends struggling to choose between schools they were excited about and the ‘financially wise’ option of public in-state schools, it hit me, palpably but on a rather subconscious level, how lucky I was.