The purpose of our show is to bring information and solutions to issues that impact the day-to-day lives of minorities.We can bring this value add by leveraging the knowledge of our host, Walter Latham, Sr. , co-host, Michelle Swiney, and our Panel, consisting of experts in various disciplines and life experiences.
Episodes
Sunday Oct 30, 2022
Sunday Oct 30, 2022
The Walt Weekly sits down with CFP, Kevion Latham , financial advisor to professional athletes and entertainers, to discuss how to manage and grow wealth. As we all have heard, athletes become overnight millionaires only to find themselves, after leaving their sport, broke with little hope of transitioning to a productive life. How do we secure and grow our wealth so that we can pass it on generationally? That is a topline issue for us as a community.
About Kevion Latham
Managing Principal
GreenRose Wealth Management · Full-time GreenRose Wealth Management Nov 2018 - Present · 4 yrs Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania
Director of Planning
Signify Wealth Nov 2017 - Nov 2018 · 1 yr 1 moNov 2017 - moGreater St. Louis Area Greater St. Louis Area
Financial Advisor Financial Advisor
Raymond James Financial, Inc., Inc. Feb 2014 - Nov 2017 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Greater Pittsburgh Area
Wealth Management Advisor
Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch
Mar 2012 - Feb 2014 · 2 yrs· Greater Pittsburgh Area Greater
PNC
Corporate Banking Analyst Corporate Banking Analyst
Jan 2012 - Apr 2012 · 4 Months ,Cleveland/Akron, Ohio
Financial Analyst Development Program
Feb 2011 - Jan 2012 · 1 yr AreaGreater Pittsburgh Area
Education:
Penn State University Penn State University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Finance
NFLPA Registered Player Financial Advisor
NFL Players AssociationI ssued Mar 2020 · No Expiration Date
CFP Board Issued Nov 2016 · No Expiration Date Issued Credential ID 270671
Charities
Board MemberBoard Member
Homeless Children's Education Fund Nov 2020 - Present · 2 yrs Nov 2020 - Present
Advisory Committee Advisory Committee
Orange Arrow Players Association Dec 2020 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Michelle is all over the city y’all. Here is one of her interviews from her travels.
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Sunday Oct 16, 2022
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
An Interview with Tambra Stevenson, Founder and CEO of WANDA
What are the voices of food freedom? Women Advancing Nutrition Dietetics and Agriculture (WANDA), a DC-based nonprofit organization, amplifies the voices of Black women and girls leading in the food system in this premiere video release prior to its Sisterhood Supper: #Juneteenth Celebration kicking off WANDA Week.
Juneteenth represents not just emancipation of Black bodies and minds but also from colonized cuisines that have robbed our generational health. “From diabetes to heart disease, I have family members who have been victims of an unjust food system from lack of land to lack of nutrition education,” says Tambra Stevenson, founder/CEO of WANDA.
“For too long Black women and girls have been hidden figures in our food system. Yet they have used food as their superpower to nourish a nation and heal their homes," says Tambra Stevenson, CEO of WANDA. "We are not only amplifying their voices but fund the movement towards food freedom." Food sheroes - are not just professional women in food and nutrition but our mothers, aunties, and nanas - who are addressing hunger, nutrition, & health inequities while building upon a legacy of food freedom fighters on the frontline like Georgia Gilmore, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Harriet Tubman.
WANDA is grateful for the community-wide support for the Food Shero Freedom Fund which helps establish their next endowment at an HBCU. Share this video with your community and join in the conversation of inclusive representation in leading the food system by changing the narrative using #IamWANDA and #FundtheFightNow
About Tambra Raye Stevenson MPH
CEO, Women Advancing Nutrition Dietetics and Agriculture
Tambra Raye Stevenson is the founder and CEO of WANDA: Women Advancing Nutrition Dietetics and Agriculture building a pipeline of a million women and girls to lead from farm to health through education, advocacy, and innovation. Tambra is working at the nexus of nutrition equity, sustainability, and health. She has been named the 2021 Science Defender by the Union of Concerned Scientists, a 2021 Changemaker by Clean Eating Magazine, 2020 Changemaker in the Food System by Washington City Paper, National Geographic Traveler, ASHOKA/RWJF’s Champion for Children’s Wellbeing and by the NAACP with the Wm. Montague Cobb Advocacy Award. She was appointed by USDA Secretary Vilsack to the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics (NAREEE) Advisory Board. Tambra serves as the nutrition and health working co-chair for the D.C. Food Policy Council and nutrition security working co-chair for the Tufts Food and Nutrition Innovation Council. She holds an M.P.H. in health communication from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts, and a bachelor’s degree in human nutrition with a minor in Spanish from Oklahoma State University. She is currently working on her Ph.D. at the American University School of Communication in Washington, D.C. After Tufts, Tambra began her public service career at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the D.C. Mayor's Office on Women's Policy and Initiatives, and at the University of the District of Columbia’s College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences.
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Monday Sep 26, 2022
Monday Sep 26, 2022
For those who missed it!
QAnon or simply Q, is a disproven and discredited American far-right conspiracy theory alleging that a secret cabal of Satan worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles is running a global sex-trafficking ring and plotted against former President Trump while he was in office. QAnon is called a cult.
The conspiracy theory dates back to October 2017, when an anonymous post on a message board said extradition agreements had been struck with several countries "in case of cross border run" by Hillary Clinton, Trump's Democratic rival for the White House in 2016. (That run still hasn't happened.) The person or group behind the post eventually came to be known as "Q," which is where the conspiracy theory's name comes from.
Now I think that there has always been a need to belong. Some people are followers, so if something comes down the line that fits their belief system, they are likely to jump on the wagon. QAnon fits this to a "T". They hate the government, they don’t like Democrats, they want to bring back the Reich.
There have been many cults throughout history, and there will be more. Why, man’s need to have a common enemy. Man is tribal at the most primitive level. That is how early man survived. You must have a common enemy.
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Panel
Greg Coleman, NC
CEO of Illumination Media & Technology
FB: illuminationmediatech
IG: illuminationmediatech
TW: IlluminationMe1 & YouTube
Engineer at The Walt Weekly
Christopher Swiney, New Jersey
Host of Loud Chatter on Podbean & Chef
CEO of Johnny Ruth’s Catering
IG: Bigsween68
FB:Christopher Swiney
Gene Edwards
Male District Leader (D)
79th AD, The Bronx, NY
Fb: Gene Anthony Edwards Jr.
Ig: teamgene_
Ernest J. Robinson, Washington ,DC
Sergeant, US Marine Corp Combat Veteran
SR consultant @ B Ernest leadership and professional consultant
Fb: Ernest J Robinson
Steven A. Smith, ATL, GA
Educator, second chance business funding, credit specialist
http://Teachpracticemaster.com
Social media:
IG;stevenamithnycatl
fb;Steven A Smith
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Co-host of the TWW ,and NYC Hairstylist, Michelle Sweeney-McCombs, a veteran of NYFW, gives us an insider view of this year's Fashion Week.
Stay tuned as a veteran gives you her review of this season's activities along with the ins and outs.
Emerge fashion runway show NYFW SS23
Dionnne Williams,
Creator & Producer of Emerge
President, D. Williams Public Relations Group
@emergenyfw
Fashion Innovator Award
Misa Hylton
Misahyltonfashionacademy.com
IG: @misshylton
Award presenter Bevy Smith
Media personality, best-selling Author & Actress
Designers
Stevie Edwards
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Creative Brand Consultant
CEO @whitenoiseconsulting
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Kia Sterling
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Sunday Sep 11, 2022
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
Since we released this episode on 7/24/19, nothing has changed! What is the most important lesson that we keep getting hit over the head with? Without struggle, there is no freedom!
It has always puzzled me why we have not been to able effect change utilizing our right to assemble and protest peacefully. Why is that other groups can come together and protest and produce change or compromise. The only difference that is evident to me is perseverance, consistency, and being relentless.
What is the difference between them and us? Well, to be perfectly honest note the following
- Consistency
- People not participating
- People losing interest
- People burying their heads in the sand
- People afraid that they will lose their jobs
- Lack of group cohesion (this has killed us)
- Failure to develop an agenda
- Execution of that agenda
The issues facing the Black American run deep and cannot change without refusing to accept the status quo.
Just look around you, other groups have lost respect in our ability to stand up and call out these issues that face us. What is 1000 protesters when we have over 35 million Black Americans in this country. We can’t afford to just sit here and take it. Aren’t you tired? Or do you think God is going to change things for the better? We have to make the sacrifices. Nothing has been gained without sacrifice.
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Sunday Sep 04, 2022
Sunday Sep 04, 2022
In a paper done by the National Information Forum, The “great replacement” theory, in simple terms, states that welcoming immigration policies — particularly those impacting nonwhite immigrants — are part of a plot designed to undermine or “replace” the political power and culture of white people living in Western countries.
America is struggling with its reasoning and responses to population replacement, or the “great replacement” theory. Like so many demographic issues, the composition of America’s population has become highly politicized, partisan and divisive.
Promoted by racist, antisemitic, xenophobic and white supremacist groups and spread by some media outlets, the great replacement is a conspiracy theory about changes in the composition of America’s population. The great replacement theory centers on the belief that nonwhite, non-Christian people are being brought to America for the purpose of replacing the white Christian majority population in order to establish a new political and socio-cultural agenda.
It has moved from the fringe of racist political movements to become prominent in American politics. A recent poll found that 61 percent of Americans who voted for former President Trump agree with the idea behind the great replacement theory
Sunday Aug 21, 2022
Sunday Aug 21, 2022
The more we pull back the carpet, the more roaches we see. As we continue to do research for topics, 99.999% of the time we are encountering discrimination and down right merciless behavior towards Black folks. It is hard discovering all the ways that we are systematically subjected to abuse on every level. It is amazing where we could have been. Stay tuned.
Home Appraised With a Black Owner: $472,000. With a White Owner: $750,000.
According to the New York Times, Nathan Connolly and his wife, Shani Mott, say an appraisal company undervalued their home based on their race. The couple has filed a lawsuit in Maryland.
Last summer, Nathan Connolly and his wife, Shani Mott, welcomed an appraiser into their house in Baltimore, hoping to take advantage of historically low interest rates and refinance their mortgage.
They believed that their house — improved with a new $5,000 tankless water heater and $35,000 in other renovations — was worth much more than the $450,000 that they paid for it in 2017. Home prices have been on the rise nationwide since the pandemic; in Baltimore, they have gone up 42 percent in the past five years, according to Zillow.com.
But 20/20 Valuations, a Maryland appraisal company, put the home’s value at $472,000, and in turn, loanDepot, a mortgage lender, denied the couple a refinance loan.
Dr. Connolly said he knew why: He, his wife and three children, aged 15, 12 and 9, are Black. A professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Connolly is an expert on redlining and the legacy of white supremacy in American cities, and much of his research focuses on the role of race in the housing market.
Months after that first appraisal, the couple applied for another refinance loan, removed family photos and had a white male colleague — another Johns Hopkins professor — stand in for them. The second appraiser valued the house at $750,000.
This week, Dr. Connolly and Dr. Mott sued loanDepot, which is based in Foothill Ranch, Calif., as well as 20/20 Valuations and Shane Lanham, the owner of 20/20 Valuations. Mr. Lanham is the appraiser who conducted the first appraisal.
Sunday Aug 14, 2022
Sunday Aug 14, 2022
Do you think that Black men are non-contributors and we need to raise our Black Women to be men. We don't think that it is as simple as Rev. TD Jakes makes it. Stay tuned.
Two of the most powerful positions in the United States government will soon be held — for the first time — by black women: Kamala Harris and Ketanji Brown-Jackson. Harris, as we all know, is the vice president of the United States and Brown-Jackson could is a Supreme Court justice.
But Harris and Brown-Jackson also share a personal attribute that is equally noteworthy: Each has a white husband.
This fact is significant. The effects of racism have left well-educated black women with a paucity of black male partners: According to Brookings Institute data, black men are less likely than black women to have completed high school and 50 percent less likely to have attained a four-year college degree. Yet despite the shortage of suitable black partners, black women have also been the least likely of any minority group to marry outside of their race, according to data from the Pew Research Center.
YouTube Link To TD Jakes Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkjfZ6Rj03E
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
What is going on in our world? We are seeing things that we would associate with the apocalypse. Michelle and Walter discuss only a small fraction of what we see and what the TWW believes are factors.
Antiracism activist and diversity trainer Jane Elliott described it as a fear so great that White people, including political leaders, “will do anything to see that doesn’t happen.” And what is that? Losing the majority!
More to come because we are only scratching the surface in this episode.
Special Mentions:
- Dena Ramsey
- Bridgette Stokes
- Clorette Harris-Mason