1. How to Make Cultural Capital Work
for Families and Communities
Cultural Capital and Global Relevancy
& the Social Divide

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

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