Mission of the Minority Business Development
To establish and implement initiatives that will increase business opportunities at the University of Missouri System for Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (M/WBEs).

Primary Roles and Responsibilities
To identify Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises - suppliers/distributors, contractors and design consultants - Read more

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The Black Family Pledge

Because we have forgotten our ancestors
our children no longer give us honor.

Because we have lost the path our ancestors
cleared, kneeling in perilous undergrowth,
our children cannot find their way.

Because we have banished the God of our
ancestors, our children cannot pray.

Because the old walls of ancestors
have faded beyond our hearing
our children cannot hear us crying.

Because we have abandoned our wisdom of
mothering and fathering our befuddled children
give birth to children they neither want nor understand.

Because we have forgotten how to love,
the adversary is within our gates,
and holds us up to the mirror of the world,
shouting, “regard the loveless.”

Therefore we PLEDGE to bind ourselves again to one another.

To embrace our lowliest.
To keep company with our lonliest,
To educate our illiterate,
To feed our starving,
To clothe our ragged,
To do all good things, knowing that we are
more than keepers of our brothers and sisters,
We are our brothers and sisters.

In honor of those who toiled and implored
God with golden tongues, and in gratitude
to the same God who brought us
out of hopeless desolaton.

We make this pledge.

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The selection of Senator Joesph Biden is in some ways an ommission of Barrack Obama that he does not have experience in foreign policies.

What Barrack Obama lacks in experience he can gain with his selection of Joel Biden.
The Republicans feel that John McCain is one candidate. But Barrack Obama has to have an additional person running to equal the strength of experience and maturity that McCain has. Read more

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Black people travelling to Branson, Missouri

Have you been to Branson? What was your experience?
Did you travel to Silver Dollar City?
How were the locals?

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Brown Chapel Black Church Built by African American People in Arrow Rock

Brown Chapel in Arrow Rock Showcases African American History and Black Culture

The early settlers in Arrow Rock were southerns who brought their slaves with them when they moved to Arrow Rock. Following emancipation the first public building to serve the African-American population was the Brown’s Chapel Free Will Baptist Church, possibly as early as 1869, but signed 1871. The church also served as the first school for the newly emancipated population with 65 students in attendance. The church was originally located on the north edge of town but was moved in 1884 to its current location. The church is now owned and maintained by the Friends of Arrow Rock. Brown’s Chapel was rededicated September 20, 1998, with 125 people in attendance at the Homecoming Celebration. In honor of Arrow Rock’s African-American heritage Homecoming and Juneteenth events are conducted at the church each year.

Brown’s Chapel and the Black Lodge are the two newest properties of the Friends of Arrow Rock, gifts to us in 1996 from Ted and Virginia Fisher. These are two of the last three public buildings that remain of a once vital African-American Community in Arrow Rock. (The third building is the former school, now a private residence.) Arrow Rock was predominately settled by southern immigrants who brought with them their slaves. Following emancipation, the first community building to be erected was a church probably as early as 1869. We believe this first church building also served as the first black school with 65 students.

Originally built just north of the town limits, Brown’s Chapel Free Will Baptist Church was moved to its present location in 1883 by Zack Bush. Oral tradition tells us they moved it with a team of mules. In the 1920s Brown’s Chapel hosted the annual Association meeting with up to 300 people attending the week long meeting.

Brown’s Chapel was rededicated September 20, 1998, with 125 people in attendance at the Homecoming Celebration. In honor of Arrow Rock’s African-American heritage Homecoming and Juneteenth events will continue; contact the Friends of Arrow Rock Office, 660-837-3231, for the current schedule.

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The Black Archives of Mid America in Kansas City

This one-of-a-kind attraction, located just one block west of the 18th and Vine District, boasts one of the largest collections of African-American art, memorabilia and historical materials in the region. You will also explore the histories and lifestyles of many of the most respected African-American leaders in the area. The Black Archives of Mid America was founded by Horace Peterson.

The Black Archives of Mid America boasts one of the largest collections of African-American art, memorabilia and historical materials in the nation, with special focus on black history and culture in the four-state area of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Oklahoma . Established by African American historian and folorist Horace M. Peterson III in 1974 on the second floor of the local YMCA, the collection today contains more than 31,000 items, including black art, paintings, manuscripts , photographs, personal correspondence, oral histories, and rare books. Permanent exhibits include one dedicated to Buffalo Soldiers and other Black Army units that served in the Civil War up to World War II, as well as a faithful reconstruction of a 19th century slave cabin. Located in Kansas City’s historic 18th and Vine District, a visit to the Black Archives of Mid American makes the perfect addition to a day of discovery in the downtown area.

The Mission of the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City, Inc.

The mission of the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City, Inc. is to collect, preserve and make available to the public materials documenting the social, economic, political and cultural histories of persons of African American descent in the central United States, with particular emphasis in the Kansas City, Missouri region. Black Archives of Mid-America is an educational resource and provides access to its collections for research, exhibition and publication to honor our community heritage and to catalyze public awareness.

Currently, you may only view the digitized collection online.

Popularity: 15% [?]