Rev. Arnold Townsend, chair of the African-American Art & Culture Complex; Al Williams, president of the S.F. African-American Historical and Cultural Society and Lou Garrett, past worshipful master of Hannibal Lodge No. 1 join Templeton at Third Baptist Church to honor the work of Dr. Amos C. Brown Jr. on the California reparations task force

Jerry Mitchell, president of the Alabama State Black Chambers of Commerce, awards Dr. Carla Jackson Bell, Dean of Architecture and Construction Science at Tuskegee University, for being the first architecture program at an HBCU, as Alabama chamber leaders and Templeton look on during second day of #BuildingBlack symposium in Tuskegee

Templeton describes the need for Black historic preservation with Dr. Kwesi Daniels, chair of architecture and Dean Dr. Carla Jackson Bell at Tuskegee University, where students made the bricks and built 100 buildings across 5,000 acres

Michael Hill, Southern Regional Economic Roundtable; Matt Patrick, New Black Wall Street Marketplace; Audra Cunningham, T. Dallas Smith & Co., Omar Ali, Ali Development and Templeton on first day of #BuildingBlack in Atlanta at Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs

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Templeton predicts reaching Promised Land by America’s 250th anniversary during #BuildingBlack: Planning for Prosperity at RICE in Atlanta

Templeton notes African-Americans generate $200 billion more each year than Saudi Arabia

Templeton with Jerome Russell, President of H.J. Russell and Co., and Michael Hill of Georgia Coalition of Black Chambers

1690248689819 — Brownsville born and bred Ericka Keller breaks ground July 24 on Glenmore Manor in her home neighborhood after the community fought for 36 years to have the lot developed.

IMG_20230724_173927 — Ericka Keller with NYC HPD Commissioner Adolpho Carrion at groundbreaking for Glenmore Manor

IMG_20230724_192711 — Groundbreaking for Glenmore Manor

IMG_20230809_081526 — NAFEO President/Counsel Lezli Baskerville helps Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-SC celebrate his birthday, which he shares with Nelson Mandela

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1689787677104 — Founder John William Templeton with panelists Derrick Johnson of NAACP, Ron Busby of US Black Chambers, Rev. Al Sharpton of National Action Network and Dr. Ben Chavis of NNPA and Charles O’Neal of US Black Chambers

IMG_20230725_061933 — Thurgood Marshall Center hosts Black Businesses That Shaped the Constitution

IMG_20230815_160018 — Thomasina Yearwood, executive director of Thurgood Marshall Center, at #DEFENDING14thAMENDMENT

IMG_20230804_094232 — Founder John William Templeton at NPS headquarters in Tuskegee

ASBCC National Black Business Month 2023 (2) — #BuildingBlack: Planning for Preservation

IMG_20230804_102051 — Motto for Tuskegee students modeled by architecture librarian Halimah Pierott

IMG_20230806_120050 — Jerk ribs at Black Cultural Zone in Oakland

IMG_20230804_113209 — Gravesite of Dr. George Washington Carver

IMG_20230813_143709 — Carolina catfish with shrimp and crab at Carolina Kitchen on Rhode Island Row in the nation’s capital

115383741547092932 — At Moton Field, a P-51 fighter jet flown by the 99th Pursuit Squadron

IMG_20230721_221702 — In Jackson Ward National Historic District, where Templeton was project area chair in the 1980s as editor of the Richmond AFRO

IMG_20230811_060400 — Marking Black Theater Day at Magic Theater in San Francisco to see Josephine’s Feat

1686282795761 — Top architects join Aug. 4 at Tuskegee to describe their impact on history

1686437493913 — Templeton leads AIA delegates through California African-American Freedom Trail

1686462957099 — Site of the new Sargent Johnson National Museum of African-American Art at Fisherman’s Wharf

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atcivilwarmemorial — Templeton with Dr. Frank Smith, founder of the African-American Civil War Museum and reenactor of the 209,145 U.S. Troops of African Descent

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1672289717154 — With 40 year merchant on Pitkin Avenue, Uncle Roy Antoine as Central Brooklyn EDC Chair John William Templeton leads the development of a Black business district in Brownsville

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BZ4A0126 — With Alabama State Black Chambers President & CEO Jerry Mitchell at Alabama A&M

BZ4A0101 — Speaking for Alabama State Black Chamber of Commerce at Alabama A&M in Huntsville

BF920442-E67F-4C40-BF0E-B1829AB87989 — Archbishop Franzo King and civil engineer Fred Jordan Sr.

F24ACBCD-1642-4B61-9088-1344135999BD — featured historian in movie Gina’s

53C21BAE-5FF9-4F21-A3E9-CBA45C5E4233 — Dr. Amos C. Brown credits Templeton with landmarking original site of 170-year old Third Baptist

B91FE823-0D45-4E22-99DA-B97A1F7FD746 — With Abdul Muhammad of MMI and Silicon Valley Black Chamber President Rev. Sam Wasington

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1661073028460 — With Central Brooklyn EDC Executive Director LaShawn Allen Muhammad in historic Azurest in Sag Harbor, the Hamptons

401a3772 — Visit blackbusinessmonth.com to gain access to the specific data that propels Black businesses forward

401a3766 — John William Templeton describes the best year economically for African-Americans in 2021 and tells how to sustain the progress during US Black Chambers national conference on July 14

401a3770 — Templeton describes findings of Down But Not Out: State of Black Business, 19th edition

401a3763 — Giving State of Black Economy at US Black Chambers

IMG_20220219_112445_450 — Giving Mapping Maya tour

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A0D35F77-E5AE-4CDB-85A7-B12FEA0F8EE5 — Mayor London Breed co-sponsored the Board of Supervisors resolution in support of the California African-American Freedom Trail in 2014

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IMG_20230803_144000 — Michael Hill, Southern Regional Economic Roundtable; Matt Patrick, New Black Wall Street Marketplace; Audra Cunningham, T. Dallas Smith & Co., Omar Ali, Ali Development and Templeton on first day of #BuildingBlack in Atlanta at Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs

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