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Combining Culture with Currency

THE AFRO — The award-winning creative agency, The Digital Footprint, hosted an interactive financial event called “CapTalk” on Aug. 24. The event, held in Washington D.C. is a way to combine culture with currency in partnership with Capital One. Hosted at the Capital One Café to a sold-out crowd, the event provided minority entrepreneurs and creatives a safe space to discuss money management and financial literacy. Attendees learned about their “capital in the nation’s capital” through a panel, workshops, and one-on-one sessions with accountants, legal aids, and personal financial advisors.

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7 years ago

September 17, 2019

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The Digital Footprint founders Donye Taylor and Raymond Smith. (Courtesy Photo)

By Brianna Rhodes

The award-winning creative agency, The Digital Footprint, hosted an interactive financial event called “CapTalk” on Aug. 24. The event, held in Washington D.C. is a way to combine culture with currency in partnership with Capital One.

Hosted at the Capital One Café to a sold-out crowd, the event provided minority entrepreneurs and creatives a safe space to discuss money management and financial literacy. Attendees learned about their “capital in the nation’s capital” through a panel, workshops, and one-on-one sessions with accountants, legal aids, and personal financial advisors.

Founders of The Digital Footprint, Donye Taylor and Raymond Smith, hosted this event with Black millennials in mind. This affair is a fun way to expose the average person to knowledge about handling their finances and raising capital.

“I know growing up whenever finance was taught to me, it was taught in a way that was really hard for me to understand because it was always somebody that was not in my generation,” Taylor told the AFRO. “So they didn’t understand how I digest information. With the certain jargon that they used, it just didn’t connect with me, so we wanted to create something where like people of the same generation could talk to one another in a way that they could understand.”

Taylor believes that events focused on finances, like CapTalk, can also move the Black community forward by creating generational wealth and closing gaps, like racial disparities.

Panelists spoke about topics like intellectual property, contracts, managing debt, financial planning, and how to avoid comparing yourself to people on social media.

“One thing that I can say is just trust the process and don’t let the internet make you broke,” Smith told the AFRO. “We preach that a lot and we spoke about it at the event. A lot of times people look on social media and keep up with ‘The Joneses’ or they see this business person posting and they’re like, ‘Oh man….my business doesn’t look like that?’ or ‘What am I doing wrong?’ or ‘Should I just give up.’’’

“Everybody has a different race with a different pace and I feel like don’t let it get you down or make you feel like you’re doing less than the next person,” Smith added. “Just ignore it and just keep putting out content and keep doing your thing.”

In addition to offering financial advice, there were free giveaways and free food and drinks. Attendees also played a game called “Cap or No Cap” to teach them financial secrets, like users being able to get a discount with Lyft or other places if they use a Cash App Credit Card.

The game is one way that The Digital Footprint incorporates knowledge with Black culture, which is something that is always emphasized at their events. Culture is at the forefront of each event because the organization feels that essentially, we are the culture.

“I’m one of those people where I believe Black culture is global culture when it comes to any industry and I feel like everybody uses our culture to sell stuff except for us,” Taylor told the {AFRO}. “By us taking the culture that we contribute to and we create, and using it back in our community, that people that look like us and think like us can learn from us. I think that’s the most important thing.”

Be sure to be on the lookout for more events for the culture hosted by The Digital Footprint. To learn more about their company, check out their website and follow them on Instagram.

This article originally appeared in The Afro.

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Youth-Led Black August Event Brings Past to Present at East Oakland Boxing Association

The mission of Youth Alive! Is to “break the cycle of violence, heal trauma, and uplift a thriving community of leaders, to save lives in Oakland and beyond” by serving “as mentors, youth leaders, counselors, case managers, intervention specialists and violence interrupters,” working “to help violently wounded people heal themselves and their community.”
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By Jana Lang Propel Youth Reporter

Youth-Led Black August Event Brings Past to Present at East Oakland Boxing Association

The East Oakland Boxing Association (EOBA) and Youth Alive! came together on Aug. 21 to share with their community all that Black August means to them.

Held on EOBA’s patio at 816 98th Ave. in Deep East Oakland, the two organizations hosted their second annual Black August Experience, featuring a food tasting, financial literacy and mindfulness workshops, and voter registration with the League of Women Voters Oakland (LWV).

Black August is known as a time to uphold the legacy of prisoners who protested their conditions by fasting, fighting, and educating themselves on the economic and political circumstances that contributed to their incarceration.

According to its website, “EOBA is a multi-service youth and community development hub that goes far beyond the ring. While rooted in the discipline of boxing, for nearly 40 years EOBA has also integrated robust programs in workforce development, food justice, afterschool enrichment, financial literacy, mentorship, and wellness.”.

The mission of Youth Alive! Is to “break the cycle of violence, heal trauma, and uplift a thriving community of leaders, to save lives in Oakland and beyond” by serving “as mentors, youth leaders, counselors, case managers, intervention specialists and violence interrupters,” working “to help violently wounded people heal themselves and their community.”

Through Coro California, another leadership organization serving young people across the state for 80 years, they gained a broader understanding of Black August.

EOBA Executive Director Dawna Williams spoke about how much she learned about Black August from the youth who created it. “I let them educate me,” she said. Instead of talking about prison reform and mass incarceration, Williams and youth interns found that Black August meant so much more. “We would have done a disservice if we had just focused on who the people were and what their situation was…We tried to take their message from back in the day and make it relevant to the young people today. What do they need to know?”

Youth interns created and placed posters around the patio to help participants understand how traditional Black foodways, civic engagement, financial literacy, and the power of education are relevant to Black resistance today.

An EOBA member described Black August with Youth ALIVE! as “a whole vibe. “This year we added the Fun Zone for the kids, because you really cannot go wrong with a Fun Zone. I also loved seeing everyone chillin’ in the outdoor lounge, catching some Vitamin D and just enjoying a Friday evening together.”

The food tasting, a popular event from last year, featured traditional Black foods such as black-eyed peas, johnny cakes, and fried chicken. Led by Williams, the tasting included a talk about how these traditional foods were made and why they are forms of Black resilience.

The “‘Plate of History’ was a favorite of the online writers. “Fun, educational, and did I mention delicious? Our Taste of History cook, Angela Southall, served up some good eats while connecting food to history and culture.”

The writer also commended the “League of Women Voters Oakland for their civic leadership and for getting our young people informed, ready, and registered to vote.”

Overall, it was a “good Friday event in East Oakland,” the writer said.

Upcoming Black August events: Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS), will host “Black August: The Arc of Liberation” at Oakland City Hall on Sat. Aug. 29, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The websites for East Oakland Boxing Association, Youth Alive! and CORO are sources for this report.

Jana Lang is an Oakland resident, teacher, gardener and poet participating in the Propel News Initiative.

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