National African American Chamber of Commerce

Inside the Black business boom that’s reshaping America's economic landscape Consumers should intentionally seek out and support Black-owned businesses, not just during Black History Month or on Juneteenth, but all year long.

"The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.” – Where Do We Go from Here, 1967. “We must recognize that we can't solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power in America. This means a revolution of values and other things."

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
(December 1967)

"When one knows not which just road they need to travel, just keep moving forward ahead in righteousness, with a heart full of love and with perseverance and determination, you will surely arrive."

"Happy King Day Everyone."

Duane Allen Jenkins
(1989)

(Painting by Debra Hurd)

Happy New Year Everyone, In accordance with federal civil rights laws and civil rights regulations and policies, the National African American Chamber of Commerce (NAACC) its officers and employees, and institutions participating in or administering NAACC programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, s*x (including gender identity and s*xual orientation), religious creed, disability, age, political beliefs, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by NAACC. Programs that receive financial assistance from the NAACC and programs NAACC directly operates are also prohibited from discrimination under federal civil rights laws.

Hello Our Friends,

The National African American Chamber of Commerce would like to share with you this greeting during this season of joy and peace.
We wish each and everyone a Merry Christmas or a Happy Kwanzaa or a Happy Hanukkah or a Feliz Navidad or a Happy Holiday.

May you find peace and joy in your journey, so much so that you have enough to graciously give it to everyone you meet in this most wonderful time of year, with enough left over to last throughout the entire new year.

Peace be with you and all of your family and friends.

We will see you all in the coming new year. Thank you for your patronage, your friendship and your loyalty to the National African American Chamber of Commerce (NAACC).

In the Highest Regards, I am

Very Truly Yours,

Duane Allen Jenkins
President and Chief Executive Officer
National African American Chamber of Commerce
122 South Michigan Avenue Suite 1390
Chicago, Illinois 60603

​Customer Service:
(470) 330-1704

​Website:
www.naacc.us

A look at Black-owned businesses in the U.S. In 2020, there were an estimated 140,918 U.S. firms with majority Black or African American ownership, up 14% from 124,004 in 2017.

Who is driving Black business growth? Insights from the latest data on Black-owned businesses | Brookings Table of contents Introduction Recent trends Geographic patterns (and interactive) Pandemic rebound Black women are starting more businesses Factors driving growth California booming More action is needed Executive summary Using the Census Bureau’s Annual Business Survey (ABS) data on employer fir...

"The Penny Pincher Direct Mail Advertising Guide, Inc., the United States Amateur Athletic Association, Inc (USAAA)., the Women's United States Basketball Association (WUSBA), Inc., the National African American Chamber of Conference (NAACC) and the Mountain Valley Telecommunication Services, Inc., does not discriminate against a job applicant because of his or her race, color, religion, s*x (including gender identity, s*xual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information."

Mr. Duane Allen Jenkins
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Alden Group Holding Company, Inc.

".....if you didn't know. African Americans founded Decoration Day now known as Memorial Day at the graveyard of 257 Union soldiers labeled “Martyrs of the Race Course,” May 1, 1865, Charleston, South Carolina. This selfless act is the beginning of the honor."

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If one has to have a "Hero", one should admire the best of the best."
Warren Buffett slammed the last debt-ceiling crisis as a stupid waste of time - and called for the government's borrowing limit to be removed
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Warren Buffett warned in 2011 that failing to raise the debt ceiling might be the most idiotic move in the history of Congress.

Update from the National African American Chamber of Commerce (NAACC) - April 15, 2023

Hello Everyone,
The NAACC will continue its organization of membership sales, the "Resolution and Resurrection 1619-2023 Remittance Act" and all other programs in spite of the recent medical, and health news.

We now would like to announce that we will postpone all plans in regards to the "Resolution and Resurrection 1619-2023 Remittance Act". This is not a total cancellation of the plan, it's a short delay.
Do to the results of current news and events surrounding my recent examination, we informed Norcross Mayor Craig Newton (D) we have cancelled the rally at "Lillian Webb Park" in downtown Norcross, Georgia originally scheduled for Saturday, May 6, 2023.
In a telephone call to the office of Congresswoman Lucy McBath (D-GA 7th District), we have also informed them of our withdrawal at this time. We have encouraged them to aggressively continue the pursuit of reparations for the 40 million African Americans.

Memberships sales and acquisition in the NAACC will begin on July 1, 2023 as scheduled.

We will offer more updates in the very near future.

Man can only do so many things at a time, to do all things well.

In the Highest Regards, I am,

Very Truly Yours,

Duane Allen Jenkins
Founder and President
National African American Chamber of Commerce (NAACC)
Chicago, Illinois 60603

Good Day Everyone,

We men wish to take this time to wish the women of the United States and from around the world, a very "Happy Women's History Month".

You shine and you soar, you are the backbone of the country and you are so very much honored, loved, cherished, revered and respected.

This is your month of recognition and we all support you and the unmatchable achievements of accomplishments you have made throughout history in the United States and all around the world.

Where would the world be without you?

In the Highest Regards, I am,

Duane Allen Jenkins
Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer
National African American Chamber of Commerce

Reparations for slavery in the United States

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Part of a series on African Americans

Reparations for slavery is the application of the concept of reparations to victims of slavery or their descendants. There are concepts for reparations in legal philosophy and reparations in transitional justice. In the US, reparations for slavery have been both given by legal ruling in court and/or given voluntarily (without court rulings) by individuals and institutions.

The first recorded case of reparations for slavery in the United States was to former slave Belinda Royall in 1783, in the form of a pension, and since then reparations continue to be proposed and/or given in a variety of forms. The 1865 Special Field Orders No. 15 ("Forty acres and a mule") is the most well known attempt to help newly freed slaves integrate into society and accumulate wealth. However, President Andrew Johnson reversed this order, giving the land back to its former Confederate owners.

Reparations have been a recurring idea in the politics of the United States, most recently in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries. The call for reparations intensified in 2020, amidst the protests against police brutality and the COVID-19 pandemic, which both kill Black Americans disproportionately. Calls for reparations for racism and discrimination in the US are often made by black communities and authors alongside calls for reparations for slavery. The idea of reparations remains highly controversial, due to questions of how they would be given, how much would be given, who would pay them, and who would receive them.

Forms of reparations which have been proposed or given in the United States by city, county, state, and national governments or private institutions include: individual monetary payments, settlements, scholarships, waiving of fees, and systemic initiatives to offset injustices, land-based compensation related to independence, apologies and acknowledgements of the injustices, token measures (such as naming a building after someone),[2] and the removal of monuments and streets named to slave owners and defenders of slavery.

Since further injustices and discrimination have continued since slavery was outlawed in the US, some black communities and civil rights organizations have called for reparations for those injustices as well as for reparations directly related to slavery. Some suggest that the U.S. prison system, starting with the convict lease system and continuing through the present-day government-owned corporation Federal Prison Industries (UNICOR), is a modern form of legal slavery that still primarily and disproportionately affects black populations and other minorities via the war on drugs and what has been criticized as a school-to-prison pipeline.

Business Owner Demographics: Gender, Race and More | LendingTree Business ownership data reflects broader inequalities: White Americans own 85.6% of U.S. companies with employees, while men own 63.2%.

Resources for Black-Owned Businesses Numerous organizations and government agencies offer guidance and assistance to Black-owned businesses. Here are over 14 you should know.

"Great News America, Very seldom do we get the opportunity to make amends on the bad deeds committed on African Americans while the United States stood back and watched and sometimes participated in the wrongs committed.

I have a name for the reparations package to be presented.

"The Resolution and Resurrection 1619-2023 Remittance Act".

I have been working on this for some time now and I am almost finished with the proposal. On April 4, 2023 which is the 55th Anniversary of the Assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I will personally deliver this package to President Joe Biden."

Duane Allen Jenkins
President and Founder
National African American Chamber of Commerce (NAACC)

"President Abraham Lincoln wrote and ordered the implementation of "Special Executive Field Order # 15" to Major William Tecumseh Sherman to seize all plantations in South Carolina, Georgia, North Florida and southern North Carolina and turn all lands over to the "Claptured, Falsely Imprisoned and Forced Labor African Americans " (aka as "Slaves"). This is commonly known as the "Forty Acres and a Mule" Today, his equates to a $12 Trillion Dollar Stimulus Package.

On the 15th Day of January 1865, calling for the redistribution of confiscated Southern land to freedmen in forty-acre plots. The order was rescinded later that same year, and much of the land was returned to the original white owners by then President Andrew Johnson from Knoxville Tennessee. (Vice President Johnson was suspected to be the "Spy in the White House" during the Civil War). General Lee knew General McClellan's every move. After the assassination of President Lincoln on April 14, 1865, now President Johnson rescinded and cancelled "Special Executive Field Order # 15" and gave the promised land back to the southern plantation owners.

President Lincoln wasn't even cold yet in the ground when the criminal Andrew Johnson acted immediately to rescind the executive order of "Ole Abe." Any Presidential Executive Order can be Re-instated."

One Way to Make Reparations Work Address the black-white wealth gap.

I celebrate February as "National African American History Month"

Duane Allen Jenkins
National African American Chamber of Commerce
President and Founder
www.naacc.us

"The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on."

President Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
(2008-2017)

"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."

W. E. B. Du Bois
(1868-1963)

"Early in life I learned that if you want something, you better make some noise."

Malcolm X
(1925-1965)

“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”

Frederick Douglass
(The Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park features a bronze sculpture of Frederick Douglass by Marc Andre Robinson, a Maryland Institute College of Art graduate.| U.S. Army photo by Rachel Ponder

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Letter from Birmingham City Jail”, 1963

"I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.”

Maya Angelou

I celebrate February as "National African American History Month"

Duane Allen Jenkins

Economic Inequality Selected as 2023-2024 National Policy Debate Topic The NFHS is the national leader and advocate for high school athletics as well as fine and performing arts programs. Within our 51 member state associations, we serve 19,500 high schools and more than 12 million young people.

"Happy King Day Everybody. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., would have been 94 years old. His works and deeds to make America what the Founding Fathers wrote that she should be.

2023 is the year we heal all wounds. This year, America gets well."

"The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Painting"
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“The Accumulation of Wealth,”

Frederick Douglass’s Paper,
November 28, 1856
By Frederick Douglass —

The Spartan lawgiver who discouraged the accumulation of wealth, because of its tendency to impair the liberties of his country, was fully justified in the extreme measures he adopted, by the universal experience of nations, and the fate of his own country; the fall of Spartan liberties dating from the introduction of wealth and consequent luxury of her citizens.

His aim to exterminate wealth and refinement entirely, was, perhaps, not wise; it is not wealth of itself that produces the dreaded effects, but its accumulation in the hands of a few — creating an aristocracy of wealth, ready to be the tool of an aggressive tyranny, or to become aggressive upon its own account. With an increase of wealth comes an increase of selfishness, devotion to private affairs, and a contempt of public — unless politics can be made to minister to the all absorbing selfishness of the individual.

The advocates of unbridled accumulation claim for their system, that it is founded on nature, that the faculty of acquisition is found existing in man everywhere and in all stages of development; that the world owes much to the enterprise developed by its influence; and that it would be shallow statesmanship to interfere with its action.

We are ready to grant that the condition of man, cast as he is into the world naked, and surrounded by elements unfriendly to his continued existence, renders a degree of acquisitiveness necessary for the security of life; but is it just to plead this moderate degree of accumulation, indicated by nature, in justification of the unlimited hoarding of wealth, and monopolies of land, which has converted the entire civilized world into an abode of millionaires and beggars; which renders the enslavement of the peoples of the world possible, and shrouds the future of liberty with gloom?

To look at the treasures of Paris, or London, or New York, and other centres of wealth, one might at first feel disposed to agree in the assertion that man is acquisitive creature, even in the extreme case claimed by the defenders of the present system, by which wealth is accumulated by the few, instead of being distributed, as it should be, among the mass, rendering none rich, allowing none to remain poor.

A wider range of observation, however, including man everywhere, will show that with the vast majority of mankind, a satisfaction of the wants of nature is all that is sought; and even in those centres of selfishness spoken of, there are vast multitudes who would be thus satisfied, but that the rush and crash of the mighty machine of society compels them, in self-defence, to join in the rush for wealth.
‘Tis the old question, “whether ‘tis better to be a victim or a victimizer,” and they decide against being victims.

Wealth has ever been the tool of the tyrant, the readiest means by which liberty is overthrown. A nation starting with free institutions and customs, begins to increase in wealth, and that wealth to accumulate in the hands of a few, and here is the lever by which, eventually and certainly, the liberties gained in a simpler age will be overthrown.

Wealth is averse to agitation; it abhors revolutions; it calls for peace, at whatever sacrifice. A tyranny of an individual or a class may be winding its subtle meshes around the wealthy, depriving them of the right of unrestrained locomotion, the right of speech, the right of private judgment; but if it leaves them the privilege of grasping and accumulating gold, they are content — nay, will aid the tyranny to subject them who value their liberties enough to struggle for them; for the agitation might endanger their gains …
Louis Napoleon holds his seat today, and other tyrants with him, because they have enlisted the sympathies of capital, by professions of law and order; encouraging and increasing the facilities for growing rich. Say to one of these blinded instruments of tyranny, that personal liberty, the freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, is overthrown; and they will answer you, that commerce flourishes, manufactures increase, public securities are at par. The golden calf set up, they fall down and worship, and shut their eyes to the foul wrongs perpetrated every day on human rights.

Poverty, the natural consequence of wealth unduly accumulated, plays its part in the drama of national degradation. Wherever the palaces tower highest, and enclose within their walls the greatest accumulations of luxury and wealth, there does the peasant grovel lowest in ignorance and misery; there is tyranny most secure and freedom most hopeless …

From whence, in our own country, comes the danger to liberty? Who are the ready tools and apologists of slavery …? The plain answer is, the wealth and the poverty of the nation …. We have the controllers of our commercial centres, blinding or buying the poverty-stricken, ignorant masses that fester in their alleys, to the unblushing support of the policy of slaveholding tyranny ….
Here is a problem worthy of the attention of that noblest of men, the true statesman … to render government a blessing, instead of an evil, borne by the subject, because he fears its overthrow may lead to worse.

If such a statesman shall devise measures, which, while they will not hamper private enterprise, shall yet prevent the undue accumulation of wealth in the hands of individuals or associations, he will have merited and secured a fame more lasting than has yet fallen to the lot of man. He will have founded a nation which, though subject to human vicissitudes, will yet possess elements of prosperity and permanence, such as no nation has yet enjoyed.

" The National African American Chamber of Commerce (NAACC) wishes everyone a "Fantastic New Year" and with all the days that follow. May you find peace and joy in your journey, so much so that you have enough to graciously give it to everyone you meet and with enough left over to last throughout the entire new year.

Peace be with you and all of your family and friends.

Thank you for your patronage and your loyalty to the National African American Chamber of Commerce (NAACC).

Best regards,
Duane Allen Jenkins
President and Chief Executive Officer
National African American Chamber of Commerce (NAACC)

"The National African American Chamber of Commerce (NAACC) would like to share with you this greeting during this season of joy and peace.

We wish each and everyone a Merry Christmas or a Happy Kwanzaa or a Happy Hanukkah or a Feliz Navidad or a Happy Holiday.

May you find peace, joy and love in your journey, so much so that you have enough to graciously gift it to everyone you meet in this most wonderful time of year.

Peace be with you and all of your family and friends.

We will see you all in the coming new year. Thank you for your patronage and your association with the National African American Chamber of Commerce (NAACC).

Best regards,

Duane Allen Jenkins
President and Chief Executive Officer
National African American Chamber of Commerce (NAACC)