How to Make Cultural Capital Work for Families and Communities

Cultural Capital and Global Relevancy& the Social Divide

What is Cultural Capital?

➲ One definition of Culture is: The arts, beliefs, customs, institutions, and other products of human work and thought considered as a unity especially to a particular time or social group.

➲ One definition of capital is: a means of exchange for goods or services.

➲ E.g. John and Eunice Johnson Publishing dynasty

Consistencies thoughout the diaspora

➲ North America including Canada (43 million)➲ South America (112.6 million)➲ The Caribbean (13.5 million)

60% of Afro -Brazilian people live in poverty in Brazil, Approximately the same amount in Bolivia, America has 28% of it's black people living in poverty... Poverty is endemic in black

communities across the globe.

Engaging on a Larger Scale Panel Discussion with today’s youth

➲The digital divide threatens to make the under-educated of the world even more disenfranchised.

Leveraging Social Capital throughout the diaspora

➲ Who is at the table?➲ Leveraging your talents.➲ Engaging the diaspora. ➲ Rotating Stations Format