This edition: Kenneth Knuckles, CEO, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone
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Original tape date: March 31, 2009.On this episode of Afrian American Legends, Host Roscoe C. Brown Jr. sits down and talks with Kenneth Knuckles, the CEO of Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone. The Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone’s main concept is to take public money and catalyze private investment in order to directly benefit economically deprived communities. They discuss the many loans grants and tax credits given to business and groups in order to help communities around the city. These investments hope to provide jobs and promote economic revitalization.
Guest List
Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. Director, Urban Education Policy Center, CUNY Graduate Center.
Kenneth Knuckles President & CEO, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone
- Danny Simmons, Project Diversity in the Arts
- Thursday, September 17 - 6:00am
- Monday, September 21 - 6:00am
- Tuesday, September 22 - 6:00am
- Thursday, September 24 - 6:00am
- Monday, September 28 - 6:00am
- Tuesday, September 29 - 6:00am
- Randolph Cameron, author, "Finding A Way To The Top."
- Wednesday, September 23 - 6:00am
- Danny Simmons, artist and museum sponsor
- Wednesday, September 30 - 6:00am
- Thursday, October 1 - 6:00am
- Monday, October 5 - 6:00am
- Tuesday, October 6 - 6:00am
- William H. Burgess III, pres., The Burgess Group
- Wednesday, October 7 - 6:00am
- Thursday, October 8 - 6:00am
- Monday, October 12 - 6:00am
- Tuesday, October 13 - 6:00am
- Marcia H. Morial, President & CEO, National Urban League, "Black Men in America"
- Wednesday, October 14 - 6:00am
- Thursday, October 15 - 6:00am
- Danny Simmons, Project Diversity in the Arts
- Wednesday, September 16 - 6:00am
- Jeffrey Sammons, Prof. of History, New York University "The Black Athlete"
- Wednesday, September 9 - 6:00am
- Thursday, September 10 - 6:00am
- Monday, September 14 - 6:00am
- Tuesday, September 15 - 6:00am
- Chester Higgins, Jr., photographer, New York Times
- Wednesday, September 2 - 6:00am
- Thursday, September 3 - 6:00am
- Monday, September 7 - 6:00am
- Tuesday, September 8 - 6:00am
- Inez Dickens
- Wednesday, August 26 - 6:00am
- Thursday, August 27 - 6:00am
- Monday, August 31 - 6:00am
- Tuesday, September 1 - 6:00am
- Joe Wilder, legendary jazz trumpeter
- Wednesday, August 19 - 6:00am
- Thursday, August 20 - 6:00am
- Monday, August 24 - 6:00am
- Tuesday, August 25 - 6:00am
- An Interview with Danny Glover, Actor, "Revisiting a Classic"
- Monday, August 17 - 6:00am
- Tuesday, August 18 - 6:00am
